How do I get an 8 sided cube using Compiz.

[Steven Vollom]

On Monday 16 February 2009 17:30:52 Paul Rumelhart wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
> >> Here is another resource:
> >> http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=1010
> >>
> >> From reading that thread and others in the google cache, it looks like
> >> you will have n*2 sides, when hsize=n.
> >
> > I read all the posts and made a reply myself.  It did not really relate
> > to my condition.  I actually had an octacube ??.  It had eight sides on
> > the selfsame screen.  You could rotate and move it my dragging and
> > holding down the left mouse button.  If you rotated it toward yourself,
> > you could see the pages inside, and by clicking on the page you wanted it
> > would rotate to that page. Now, I am trusting a not totally reliable
> > memory, but that is what I remember.
> >
> > Dotan, that is the feature I liked.  I would have my email package on one
> > page, various applications on other sides, sometimes several different
> > web pages, all relating to the same work effort.  You know me; I barely
> > have any memory at all, so this way, I did not have to rely on my memory
> > or taking notes on an office doc to keep up to speed with the work, I
> > simply looked inside the octacube, selected the appropriate page and
> > instantly moved to the needed reference.  It made my life a lot easier
> > and more efficient.  The only problem was memory use, but I know with 8gb
> > of memory in my new computer, it will be able to handle it.
> >
> > Steven
>
> Steven,
>
> What you are after I think is the following:
>
> In the Settings Manager, go to General compiz options, display settings
> tab, and set the horizontal virtual size to 8, the vertical virtual size
> to 1, and the number of desktops to 1.
>
> That's how I currently have mine setup.  It gives you eight desktops
> that you can rotate between.  Techincally, it's a ten-sided object,
> because the top and bottom sides are octagons.
>
> You change the 8 to be the number of desktops you want.  Four gives you
> the traditional cube, three gives you a triangular object, and two gives
> you effectively a two-sided rectangle.
>
> Paul
Sometimes when people are kidding me, I don't realize it.  This is fun stuff, 
but serious to me.  Since the start of this, I have gotten to a position where 
I have tried all the options in various ways and still don't have it working.  
Recently, I made a rapid mouse move and something happened to the panel at the 
bottom of the screen.  It is currently just showing the bottom of four of the 
icons on the top left corner of the desktop.  So little is showing that I 
can't read any of them.  To get to Kmail and reading this email, I pressed 
alt+F2 and typed in Kmail.  Not yet familiar with the konsole, I really don't 
know how to try and correct whatever happened.  Do you have any ideas for me.  
By the way, I have been trying to learn how to use Compiz and the rotating 
cube, so maybe something there is interfering.  Any help would sure be 
appreciated.  I seem to remember something like dpkg configure or something 
like that.  Is that code that might help me?

Steven