John Taylor wrote: > Andrew Oakley wrote: > >> Ted wrote: >> >> >>> John Taylor wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no >>>> **??!! cube >>>> >>>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> Correct answer. >> >> 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. >> >> 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). >> >> 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. >> >> 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". >> >> >> > Thanks Chaps, simple when you know how, will play for hours! > > Regards > > John > > John.. The sphere looks good...
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