[ Thanks to Ross
Brunson for this link. ]
“Effects like ‘Wobbly Windows’ or ‘The Cube’ are
actually Compiz Plugins. Desktop Effects acts as a front end for
configuring the settings for these plugins which are stored in each
users ~/.gconf directory. The easiest way to configure GConf keys
is with gconf-editor (/opt/gnome/bin/gconf-editor).“To see a list of all of the installed Compiz plugins, start up
gconf-editor and navigate to /apps/compiz/plugins. The best way to
learn is to play around with the different settings and see what
they do…”