Burn My Windows

by klangman

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Window open/close/minimize/unminimize effects based on the Burn-My-Windows Gnome extension by Schneegans

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CinnamonBurnMyWindows

Window open, close, minimize and unminimize effects for the Cinnamon desktop

This is a Cinnamon port of the Gnome extension Burn-my-Windows which can be found here:

https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows

Also includes a port of the Gnome Magic Lamp effect which can be found here:

https://github.com/hermes83/compiz-alike-magic-lamp-effect

Please go to the above links and support their project since this is merely a port of their fine work! But DO NOT use this Github link to report issues. See Feedback section below

Requirements

Cinnamon 6.2 (Mint 22) or better.

This extension needs the Cinnamon.GLSLEffect class which is only available in Cinnamon 6.2 or better.

Known issues

When closing the Steam Client "setting" window the 'close window effect' does not show the windows contents, resulting in the closing effect to show where the window had existed but otherwise has no negative effect.
When running VirtualBox, some actions (like restarting Cinnamon or changing panel hide settings) will show a full screen animation of both the Open and Close effect. I assume this is caused by some weirdness with how VirtualBox was written. The problem can be avoided by using two "Application specific settings" list entries to disable open/close animations for the "VirtualBox" and "VirtualBoxVM" WM_CLASS names (entered under the "Application" entry box). New installs of this extension will have these entries by default, but installs that are upgraded to the latest version will need to manually enter these app rules to avoid the issues.
The Doom open effect seems to finish animating at a noticeably lower position than where the window is actually located. This results in the sudden jump up after the animation is completed. When used as a close effect it works correctly. There is a Doom effect option called "Y offset fix for open/unminimize events" which allows you to manually fix this issue while I look for a proper fix that works for everyone.
The window shadows are not part of the animation and therefore they suddenly appear or disappear right after or before the animation.
After upgrading to 0.9.8 the Fire effect setting and the effects included in the randomized sets will be reset to default.
After upgrading to 1.0.1 the Fire and Mushroom preset selections will be reset to default.

Currently these effects are working in Cinnamon:

Apparition
Aura Glow
Doom
Energize A
Energize B
Fire
Focus
Glide
Glitch
Hexagon
Incinerate
Magic Lamp
Mushroom
Pixelate
Pixel Wheel
Pixel Wipe
Portal
RGB Warp
Team Rocket
TV Effect
TV Glitch
Wisps

Effects currently disabled:

Because Cinnamon is missing a required API, the following effects are disabled. I am hoping I can enable these effect when Cinnamon 6.6 is available later this year:

Broken Glass
Matrix
PaintBrush
Snap Of Disintegration
TRex Attack

Installation

Right click on the cinnamon panel and click "System Settings"
Click on the "Extensions" icon under the "Preferences" category
Click the "Download" tab and then click the "Burn My Windows" entry
Click the "Install" button on the right and then return to the "Manage" tab
Select the new "Burn My Windows" entry and then click the "+" button at the bottom of the window
Use the "gears" icon next to the "Burn My Windows" entry to open the setting window and setup the preferred behaviour

Feedback

Please leave a comment here on cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com or you can create an issue on my Github (https://github.com/klangman/CinnamonBurnMyWindows) to give me feedback or to report any issues you find. Please DO NOT open any issues against the original Gnome project. Open issues only on my Github or on cinnamon-spices so I can check if the issue has anything to do with my changes to support Cinnamon

If you like this extension, please consider making a donation to the author of the original Gnome extension which makes up the vast majority of the code for this Cinnamon extension. Donation links can be found on his Github page:

https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows

If you want to help others find this Cinnamon extension, consider staring it here and on my Github page so that more people might learn of it's existence. The more stars it gets the more encouragement I'll have to continue working on it. Thanks!

Credits

Ported to Cinnamon by Kevin Langman

https://github.com/klangman/CinnamonBurnMyWindows

Based on the Burn-My-Windows code by Schneegans and contributors

https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows

The Magic Lamp Effect is based on code by hermes83

https://github.com/hermes83/compiz-alike-magic-lamp-effect

CHANGELOG

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Changelog

1.0.1

Fix Fire and Mushroom effect presets when using a translation of Burn-My-Windows. Note: This fix will reset the prefix settings to default so you will need to reconfigure the extension to use your desired preset if you had previously setup a preset other then the default one.
Added "Open/Close Edge" and "Open/Close Offset" options under the Magic Lamp effect settings. These options allow you to set the monitor edge location where the Magic Lamp effect will animate from/to for open and close events. The default will be the "Closest edge to mouse pointer" but you can set it to a specific edge and offset. For example, you could direct the animations to towards the Main Menu location. These options only apply to Open/Close events as the minimize/unminimize events will continue to use the location of the windows icon on the window-list as it's source/target location.
Make the custom scale widget show tooltips when hovering over the widgets label rather than just when hovering the scale bar.

1.0.0

Here we are at version 1.0. I had hoped to have the full suite of effects enabled for version 1.0, but that will have to wait for version 1.1 when Cinnamon 6.6 is out 🤞. I wanted to get this release out there since it has two fixes that makes the current feature set work without any major issues, so in that way maybe it is a suitable 1.0 release after all!

Fixed the Magic Lamp effect to address the window flashing on minimize problem.
Fixed the problem where no effect is activated when using "Randomized" for the "Unminimize window effect".
Improved the wording of the Magic Lamp "Type of effect" drop down menu items.

0.9.9b

Fix broken version 0.9.9, I forgot to copy over some changes from my dev branch for 0.9.9

0.9.9

Added a "Reset to default" button for each effect under the "Effect Settings" tab.
Added an "Open effect preview window" button to "Effect Settings" tab. It opens a preview window to test out the currently selected effect in the "Show setting for effect" drop down list.
Added a custom "scale" widget that puts the label, scale, and number in a line to save GUI space. It also "marks" the default value for the setting.
Fixed the issue where some setting under the "Effect Settings" were not appearing properly after changing the "Show settings for effect" drop-down. It turns out that adding a common element at the end of the effect settings somehow makes the issue disappear. So I didn't really "fix" anything but adding the "Open effect preview window" button at the bottom of the effect settings section has the added benefit of avoiding the issue.
Added a custom "About page" widget to improve the look of the about tab and changed the URLs to clickable links. Also added a "Report an issue" link and the version number to the about tab.
Added buttons to set or clear all the random set check boxes.
Added BMW Gnome version changes to add a random color option to the Fire effect, also added a "Nuclear" preset.
Added an Doom setting option to manually adjust the target location for the Doom open effect so that people can work-around the Doom effect issue while I work on finding a proper fix.

0.9.8

Added new effects from the Gnome version (Aura Glow, Mushroom, RGB Warp, Team Rocket)
Added Magic Lap effect based on hermes83/compiz-alike-magic-lamp-effect (same as CinnamonMagicLamp)
Added the ability to apply effects to the minimize & unminimize events
Fixed an issue where the window was jumping a pixel to the right post open animation (finally!)
Added Fire effect presets (5 pre-configured fire setups)
Changed the Random Effects tab to use a standard List widget
Moved the Application Specific settings options to it's own tab
Added a custom color selection widget to save configurator GUI space
Use WM_CLASS when adding a app specific setting if no app can be found
Improvements to the Focus effect (from Gnome version)
Added an "About" tab with credits to the various authors

0.9.7

Added options in the configuration that allows you to define which effects will be used (if any) for dialog windows (i.e. a file open dialog). This allows you to use a more subtle or shorter running effect (i.e focus or glide) for all the dialog windows which are typically opened/closed more frequently.
Added support for using WM_CLASS names in the "application specific settings" table in the config.
Added two default "application specific settings" table entries for "VirtualBox" and "VirtualBoxVM. This addresses the Virtualbox issue described in the readme.md

0.9.6

Enabled the "Fire" effect
Apply a visual fix to "Incinerate" that was fixed in the Gnome extension recently
Reordered the code to make it a bit easier to maintain

0.9.5

Added a new "Focus" effect by Justin Garza

0.9.4

Fixed an issue that could interfere with other Cinnamon effects by returning true from Cinnamon's _shouldAnimate(). Some effects like Restore and Manximize might occur even when they were disabled in the Cinnamon Effects setting application. Also some BurnMyWindows effect could happen on events other than window open/close events (but I didn't ever see this occur myself).

0.9.3

Fix Randomized effects so that when the Doom effect is enabled under "Random Effects" it can actually be randomly selected for use

0.9.2

Added application specific effect settings that override the default effects setting when a specific application window is opened/closed
Added a "none" options to the effect drop-down lists which will perform no effect and allow the cinnamon default effect to apply
Added a button in the General configuration tab which will add an "Application Specific Settings" table entry for the application of the window that last had the focused.

0.9.1

Initial version committed to cinnamon spices

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27 Comments

angelotux-1 month ago

Fantastic

Kevin Langman-1 month ago

OK.. The update is now live. 5 new effects (Aura Glow, Mushroom, RGB Warp, Team Rocket, Magic Lamp), minimize/unminimize event support, Fire presets. Fix for the annoying 1-pixel jump right on open animations. Note: The Fire and randomized sets config setting will be reset after upgrading, you'll have to reconfigure those back to your previous settings manually (sorry). Let me know if you spot any new bugs. Enjoy!

Kevin Langman-1 month ago

A bunch of improvements coming soon. Four new effects, the ability to apply effects to minimize/unminimize events, presets for the Fire effect. Testing is on going, but if you can't wait (or would like to help test for bugs) then the changes are on my GIthub (https://github.com/klangman/CinnamonBurnMyWindows).

Bean-2 months ago

This is just so cool!! Glitch + TV Glitch is my favorite.

Texcaliber-3 months ago

Found this just now. These are Very nice effects, well done & thank you. Mint-22.1, 6.8.0-51-generic, Cinnamon Cinnamon 6.4.6

Kevin Langman-3 months ago

Just updated to version 0.9.7 which adds some minor new features (most notably, the ability to select effects specific for dialog windows). See the change log for more info. Thanks again everyone for all the nice comments, happy to see that people are enjoying the extension.

MarcoB0049-3 months ago

Hi Kevin, I really have to and want to thank you! All of your gadgets here for Cinnamon are really great! I love these cute little toys! They make the desktop even more enjoyable. Especially when you work with it every day like I do. You give us Linux nerds more joy in the daily monotony! Thank you so much for that!

tahatugyan-3 months ago

Very good extensions, thank you Kevin.

MrTheDoctor-3 months ago

Thank you, Kevin, for providing all of this window animation craziness. :)

Kevin Langman-4 months ago

I enabled the "Fire" effect with version 0.9.5.

Kevin Langman-4 months ago

Sorry, typo, should be version 0.9.6

Elitekrd-5 months ago

Works flawlessly. Thank you. Make closing and opening things fun. Great work!

SpectreZ64-5 months ago

Incredible! Thanks a lot!

JorgeAT227-5 months ago

Great work, thanks

Kevin Langman-5 months ago

Just added the new "Focus" effect to CinnamonBurnMyWindows. Thanks for all the supportive comments, enjoy the new effect!

Juan-Lutz-6 months ago

I agree that this extension should only be used to close/open windows. The magic lamp extension is a perfect match. Thank you Kevin for the support.

GleamingPulsar-6 months ago

Are there any plans to make it so that this will be able to apply when minimizing/maximizing windows? In addition it would be fun to have the option to make it apply to pop up menus like when you press the super key by default. This is really fun for me, glitch and tv glitch are giving me really good starsector vibes.

Kevin Langman-6 months ago

I had considered adding the ability to do minimize/unminimize like the Magic Lamp Effect does, but in a way the Magic Lamp makes more sense since it animates in relation to the window-list window icon. Still, I will think about it, but I will need to adjust the code so that it can coexist with Magic Lap Effect extension. The Gnome extension has a Magic Lap effect prototype, should that get finished I could make it so that Burn My Windows can replace Magic Lamp Effect. As for popup menu effects, I well have to look into whether that will be possible. Might look into it something over the winter when it sets a but less busy for me.

Roony Alvarez-6 months ago

finally, the compiz effects era is back in cinnamon. this extension makes me happy :) thank you, friend.

Xan-6 months ago

Outstanding job. Runs smoothy. PS. Is there any option to have Polish translation?

Kevin Langman-6 months ago

Glad you like the extension. You can install the "poedit" package and then use the poedit gui to load the .local/share/cinnamon/extensions/CinnamonBurnMyWindows@klangman/po/CinnamonBurnMyWindows@klangman.pot and click "Create new translation". Then select Polish in the drop-down. Translate all the entries and save the results into the same directly. If you are going to do all this then you might as well fork cinnamon-spices-extensions on github and add your new translation then submit a pull request so everyone can benefit from your translation. I haven't translated anything before, so my instruction are likely a bit over simplified. Here is a page I found that might be of more help: https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2521

Xan-6 months ago

Hm I see in PO folder PL translation so my question is: why in default PL system extension opens always in English language? or how to change it?

Kevin Langman-6 months ago

So you have made a pl.po file for this extension and placed it in the "~/.local/share/cinnamon/extensions/CinnamonBurnMyWindows@klangman/po/" directory? After that you need to restart cinnamon (possibility just a restart of BurnMyWindows would be enough, not sure). My understanding is that it should work after that (i.e the configuration dialog should be translated) as long as your system is setup for the Polish language, but like I said, I have never done the process myself.

Juan-Lutz-6 months ago

Wau thank you ... I am impressed this effect is absolutely great!

Chad Neeper-7 months ago

Love this extension! Much appreciated.

angelotux-7 months ago

Many thanks Is beautiful

claudiux-7 months ago

Great! This is the extension I've been waiting for! Many thanks to you @klangman.