Vista Ultimate

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Originally Posted by Beenieman

Installed first thing this morning, been on it a few hours and finally starting to get the hang of things. still not got the "cube" working though but I think it's because I'm thick and missed something lol :D

btw posting from it now :P

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Are u using compiz or compiz fusion?

Check hsize in compiz in your gconf-editor. Make sure its set to "4"

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Originally Posted by Beenieman

Installed first thing this morning, been on it a few hours and finally starting to get the hang of things. still not got the "cube" working though but I think it's because I'm thick and missed something lol :D

btw posting from it now :P

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If you have an ATI or NVIDIA video card, then I think you'll have to do some tweaking... Just go to http://ubuntuforums.org for help.

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Originally Posted by DefX

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Originally Posted by Beenieman

Installed first thing this morning, been on it a few hours and finally starting to get the hang of things. still not got the "cube" working though but I think it's because I'm thick and missed something lol :D

btw posting from it now :P

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Are u using compiz or compiz fusion?

Check hsize in compiz in your gconf-editor. Make sure its set to "4"

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System/Preferences/Advance Desktop Effects Settings - Thats all I've got to play with, maybe I havent got compiz installed?

I think I'm close because I can turn left and right but cant actually move the cube up or down or make it zoom out like in the video!

Yes you do. it comes pre installed. Compiz is desktop effects.

Type "gconf-editor" on a terminal. Navigate to apps - compiz - general - screen 0 - options. Then do what I instructed from above. Then make sure desktop effects is enabled. To rotate the cube hold ctrl + alt while moving the mouse.

It's so cute to observe - the lust of Linux n00bs.



-bd :happy:

All geeks once were n00bs.

Yeah brothernoobie

What I don't get is WHY? Why would you want a cube for your desktop ?

KDE can run you 10 virtual screens on a default install, how many sides have you got on that cube ? I mean WTF is the point of limiting yourself, even lestiff (mwm) could manage 9 ffs !! Please tell me it's not just because it looks cool ?

Maybe because 4 viewports/desktops is just enough for most users...

The effect is not limited to 4. I run beryl, which is practically the same thing as compiz, and you can set the number of desktops to as much as you want (Im not sure what the limit is).

When you do, obviously you wont get a cube. You'll get a hexagonal 3d fig if its 6 desktops and so on. Tbh, I dont play around with it that much. Once the novelty wore off, I disabled it too.