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!
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