I ended up going through Synaptics and installing the compizsettings-manager. Once installed I went into the app and turned on cube and cube-rotation. It works now.
Hope this helps fix the bug. BTW I think the bug is correct even for Gusty as Desktop Effects do appear as a tab in the Appearance section of System | Prefs... zeddock -- Desktop-effect does not enable cube https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89786 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs