[ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

[John Taylor]

Ted 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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
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>> John
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> John..
> The sphere looks good...
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Where are these "round objects" can't see them

John