desktop cube

[yatys]

hi im completely new to ubuntu and i have set up the cube desktop but i only have 2 sides and was wondering if i can add any more if so someboby please help.

[KdotJ]

Hello and welcome to Ubuntu,

I'm guessing you set up the cube via CompizConfig settings manager?
To get more sides,you need to go back to CompizConfig manager, and select "General Options". Then at the top, the last tab is called "Desktop Size". To make it a cube, you would need to set the horizontal virtual size to 4

Hope this helps!

[kukker32]

or right click the 2 squares in the bottom right corner and select options,

the rest i will you can figure out yourself

[yatys]

Thank you very much it was so simple 2 use once i know what im doin

[Cavsfan]

There are a lot of youtube tutorials for Compiz and the cube, etc. and there are more settings than you can believe in there!
Knowing how to set them is the trick.
I have mine all setup like I never imagined... It is amazing!

[KdotJ]

or right click the 2 squares in the bottom right corner and select options,

Indeed lol, I don't have a bottom panel as I have a dock, so I forgot exactly what the options are.

[Cavsfan]

Indeed lol, I don't have a bottom panel as I have a dock, so I forgot exactly what the options are.

The bottom panel should appear when you do a mouse over even if it is hidden...

[Carlo1973]

The bottom panel should appear when you do a mouse over even if it is hidden...

Unless you've removed it...

I did this so that I wouldn't have the panel at the bottom over lapping the dock if my mouse went to the very bottom. Kind of bothered me athetically to have it appear out of no where and cover my dock.

Here's a question - which doc do you prefer? Docky, AWN, Cairo-dock, or something else?

I ran AWN for a short time, but couldn't get Gnome-DO to work. Now I'm using Docky. I've not tried Cairo-dock yet, but the images I've seen look really nice!

[Cavsfan]

Unless you've removed it...

I did this so that I wouldn't have the panel at the bottom over lapping the dock if my mouse went to the very bottom. Kind of bothered me athetically to have it appear out of no where and cover my dock.

Here's a question - which doc do you prefer? Docky, AWN, Cairo-dock, or something else?

I ran AWN for a short time, but couldn't get Gnome-DO to work. Now I'm using Docky. I've not tried Cairo-dock yet, but the images I've seen look really nice!


I have Cairo-Dock and it is setup very well with all the special effects. I tried Docky and AWN,
but went back to Cairo-Dock. Just make sure you add all the extras and plugins.
I wondered why I didn't have the fire and some other things and found it was because I
didn't have the extras. In Synaptic I have cairo-dock, cairo-dock-plug-ins-data, cairo-dock-plug-ins, cairo-dock-core,
cairo-dock-data and cairo-dock-plug-ins-integration.
It disappears unless I move my mouse over it when I have FF in full screen, which I like.
And I like the ability to drag and drop apps into it.

And here is a link on how to add the repositories and the key if you need that.

http://www.glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=From%20the%20repository&lang=en

[Carlo1973]

I have Cairo-Dock and it is setup very well with all the special effects. I tried Docky and AWN,
but went back to Cairo-Dock. Just make sure you add all the extras and plugins.
I wondered why I didn't have the fire and some other things and found it was because I
didn't have the extras. In Synaptic I have cairo-dock, cairo-dock-plug-ins-data, cairo-dock-plug-ins, cairo-dock-core,
cairo-dock-data and cairo-dock-plug-ins-integration.
It disappears unless I move my mouse over it when I have FF in full screen, which I like.
And I like the ability to drag and drop apps into it.

And here is a link on how to add the repositories and the key if you need that.

http://www.glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=From%20the%20repository&lang=en

Sweet thanks a bunch for your input Cavsfan! I'll make sure to add those repositories soon. Sounds like Cairo-dock is pretty sweet after all. I have docky fading out so its not overlapping FF. It to will allow you to drag and drop. I have a side bar screenlet going which shows my current stats of my system - wireless strength, ip address (public and private), cpu usage, ram and pf usage. For what ever reason, that shows up in docky as an application running, rather than the screenlet program itself. I would prefer it not to show on the dock at all, as its just a background program and not a full on app. Might try cairo-dock and see if it fixes this.

[Cavsfan]

You are welcome! I have the dock with terminal, FF, Thunderbird email, gedit, calculator, a graphics spot
that has Gimp, Inkscape and F-Spot all in one, and some other usual stuff along with the weather.
All the stuff I use frequently conveniently located in the dock.

Detached on the side I have a nice clock with seconds and a meter with CPU and RAM usage as well
as GPU temperature. Ju wish the temp. would display in F instead of C.
I can't really get used to Celsius, but oh well.

I can touch super and r shift and f and paint fire all over the screen then c clears it.

[hariks0]

Have a look in the link in my signature.:popcorn:

[Cavsfan]

Have a look in the link in my signature.:popcorn:
Sweet! Thanks I will look into that. :D

[hariks0]

Some more (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1410217), and still some more (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1359976)
:popcorn: and here is the ultimate (http://ultimateeditionoz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=874).

[yatys]

is it possible to have an image at the bottom of the cube. i have one on the top

[hariks0]

Of course. It is called cube cap and available under cube deformation.

:popcorn:

[karmila]

Some more (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1410217), and still some more (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1359976)
:popcorn: and here is the ultimate (http://ultimateeditionoz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=874).

hi hariks0,

i looked out the ultimate.

if i run the instruction, what extra plugins i will get then?

[hariks0]

There are some extra plugins list of which I cannot remember right now. It includes :


Simple Animation
Wizard
Elements
Stackswitch [very cool]
Throw
Newton/gravity
Peek [like windos 7 Aero] etc

One or two were not installed correctly which I did manually [by learning from the contents of the script ;)] and worked perfect or more than that.:D

[karmila]

There are some extra plugins list of which I cannot remember right now. It includes :


Simple Animation
Wizard
Elements
Stackswitch [very cool]
Throw
Newton/gravity
Peek [like windos 7 Aero] etc

One or two were not installed correctly which I did manually [by learning from the contents of the script ;)] and worked perfect or more than that.:D

great, seems really cool!

now i will work on it and back to you in case i get any problem. and for saying thanks, of course :p

oh, i forget this. i run 0.8.4 of compiz. is it compatible?

[karmila]

doh!

i can't make the plugins worked.

i got this error message


strider@strider-desktop:~$ ~/compiz-addons install atlantis
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/strider/src/compiz/plugins/atlantis/.git/
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
/home/strider/compiz-addons: line 113: cd: /home/strider/src/compiz/plugins/atlantis: No such file or directory
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/strider/src/compiz/plugins/atlantis/.git/
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
/home/strider/compiz-addons: line 113: cd: /home/strider/src/compiz/plugins/atlantis: No such file or directory
Building atlantis..
make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
Installing ..
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
grep: plugin.info: No such file or directory
Installing icon for atlantis..
tar: icons-experimental/plugin-.svg: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Installed plugin-.svg to /usr/share/ccsm/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
Done.

any suggestion?

[hariks0]

As it seems that the remote server hund enexpectedly, you may try again later. It was very smooth for me save ones like "Throw" "Newton" etc. Also there is a forum with some name like "php compiz forum" which I do not remember correctly. This is the original forum where the script appeared first. It is sky blue cloured and very useful.

Please search and post the address here if found.

[karmila]

As it seems that the remote server hund enexpectedly, you may try again later. It was very smooth for me save ones like "Throw" "Newton" etc. Also there is a forum with some name like "php compiz forum" which I do not remember correctly. This is the original forum where the script appeared first. It is sky blue cloured and very useful.

Please search and post the address here if found.

oh server problem!

i will try it again later.

the forum supposed might be this one (http://forum.compiz.org/). is it the right one? i found that forum just yesterday.

[hariks0]

I am not able to access that site right now. Is it sky blue couloured? Does it have something like php in its name/heading?

[karmila]

I am not able to access that site right now. Is it sky blue couloured? Does it have something like php in its name/heading?

yes, it is blue colored and has php at the header ;)

[hariks0]

Great :). Now search for the topic "A script to install experimental plugins". It covers it in length.

:popcorn:

[karmila]

Great :). Now search for the topic "A script to install experimental plugins". It covers it in length.

:popcorn:

hahaha, i've found that.

great help hariks0! 8-)

[hariks0]

Very good. Now can you please post the link to that thread in this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1414467) to make it complete.

:KS

[karmila]

Very good. Now can you please post the link to that thread in this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1414467) to make it complete.

:KS

sure, i will :D