[ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

[Ted]

John Taylor wrote:
> Andrew Oakley wrote:
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>> Ted wrote:
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>>> John Taylor wrote:
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>>>> Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no 
>>>> **??!! cube
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>>> In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have 
>>> Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2
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>> Correct answer.
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>> The geometry of the "pivoting" (rotating) desktop virtualiser in Compiz 
>> is related directly to the number of horizontal sides. In Ubuntu this 
>> defaults to 2, which gives you a geometric plane with a front and back.
>>
>> A cube has 4 workspaces (horizontal sides) plus a top cap and bottom cap.
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>> An easy way of setting this whilst Compiz is running, is to right-click 
>> the Workspace Switcher on your Gnome panel, select Preferences and 
>> change the number of Columns (to 4, for a cube; total 6 sides when you 
>> include the top cap and bottom cap).
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>> There are other possibilities, such as an extruded triangle (3 
>> workspaces), extruded pentangle (5 workspaces), extruded hexagon (6 
>> workspaces) and so forth. I got up to at least 12 workspaces (extruded 
>> dodecagon) before I got bored, and both the Intel i965 and Nvidia 
>> GeForce2 graphics cards coped fine with that. If there is an upper 
>> limit, it must be a pretty silly one.
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>> For ease of use, I typically set my number of virtual desktops to the 
>> same as the number of workspaces of my "cube". In that way, if I ever 
>> switch Compiz Fusion off (or it crashes - which rarely happens these 
>> days), I still have the same number of desktops.
>>
>> I am entirely uncertain what effect the Rows preference has in the 
>> Compiz Workspace Switcher. I can't see that it does anything at all, or 
>> at least not with the Compiz "Cube".
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> Thanks Chaps, simple when you know how, will play for hours!
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> Regards
>
> John
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John..
The sphere looks good...

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Regards
 Ted Wager
  High Peak UK
   Using Sidux Linux