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SiriusB · 17 Jul 2007 at 00:01

Try using the guide linked to earlier. It's a good bet it will work in Gutsy Gibbon or whatever it is called.

Richard: How the hell did you manage to get a screenie of the rotating cube!? Been trying on and off for ages and it aint happening!

richardbirks · 17 Jul 2007 at 15:38

SiriusB said:
Richard: How the hell did you manage to get a screenie of the rotating cube!? Been trying on and off for ages and it aint happening!

Yeah - it had me swearing for a while too.

Go to your applications menu, go to accessories, then select "Take Screenshot"; set "Grab after a delay of X seconds" to a reasonable value; I use 5 seconds. Then click "Take Screenshot" and position the cube however you want it to look... job done...

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Richard

SiriusB · 17 Jul 2007 at 15:45

Ahaa... it's all so simple! Just so used to whacking Print Screen, never thought to have a look at its options. Cheers dude.

shiver · 18 Jul 2007 at 00:23

Ubuntu Feisty running Compiz Fusion.....we like

richardbirks · 18 Jul 2007 at 11:31

shiver said:
Ubuntu Feisty running Compiz Fusion.....we like

Nice... how did you get the reflection to be blue?

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Richard

SiriusB · 18 Jul 2007 at 11:54

Change the appearance settings inside the Expo plugin.

whitecrook · 18 Jul 2007 at 12:02

Now running Compiz Fusion using standard Gutsy Repos. Man it's so freaking awesome. They've really polished it up since I last tested it out. The setting thing isn't that bad...

shiver · 18 Jul 2007 at 12:38

Yeah it just takes a bit of tweaking to get what you like. I personally prefer having a background image rather than using the Cube Reflection. And yes, it's easy enough to change the colours that are used on the Expo Plugin.

The only problem I have is on start up I have to hit Alt + F2 and put in 'compiz --replace -c emerald &' to make it use the emerald theme and decorations. Does anyone know something I can set so it does this automatically?

SiriusB · 18 Jul 2007 at 12:43

shiver said:
Yeah it just takes a bit of tweaking to get what you like. I personally prefer having a background image rather than using the Cube Reflection. And yes, it's easy enough to change the colours that are used on the Expo Plugin.

The only problem I have is on start up I have to hit Alt + F2 and put in 'compiz --replace -c emerald &' to make it use the emerald theme and decorations. Does anyone know something I can set so it does this automatically?

System > Preferences > Sessions

Click Add New

Enter the name [anything]

Enter the command compiz --replace -c emerald &

Click OK and close the Sessions window.

shiver · 18 Jul 2007 at 12:53

Yeah that's what I thought. Doesn't seem to want to work though.

whitecrook · 18 Jul 2007 at 13:08

shiver said:
Yeah that's what I thought. Doesn't seem to want to work though.

This command keeps popping up it's not the command!

look at the log, compiz trys to interpret -c as a switch but it's an old beryl switch.

Use this command
compiz --replace & emerald --replace &

Edit just checked :

Code:

~$ compiz --replace -c emerald &
[1] 13738
username@jigglypuff:~$ Checking for Xgl: not present.
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Converting gconf plugin list: ''
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Warn: Unknown option '-c'

edit . although this works to get it working I can't seem to get it to consistently startup in either gnome or KDE upon Login. Anyway I'll check it out later. If anyone else is having problems even getting it to run(!) check this thread out:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=487456&page=7

shiver · 18 Jul 2007 at 13:25

Aha, thank you very much

richardbirks · 18 Jul 2007 at 16:04

whitecrook said:
Now running Compiz Fusion using standard Gutsy Repos. Man it's so freaking awesome. They've really polished it up since I last tested it out. The setting thing isn't that bad...

Running Feisty plus Fusion on my main machine, with non-standard repositories. Might have to fire up the spare machine this weekend and give Gutsy a whirl!

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Richard

whitecrook · 19 Jul 2007 at 00:16

Bleh

here's a screenie
Nothing amazing. KDE, Gusty Gibbon 64 some change to the dock and Compiz+emerald with custom settings.:

Click for bigger:

BoomAM · 19 Jul 2007 at 17:36

Nice desktop.
How did you get the dual monitors working? I could never get it to do when i tryed.

whitecrook · 19 Jul 2007 at 18:01

BoomAM said:
Nice desktop.
How did you get the dual monitors working? I could never get it to do when i tryed.

Just used nvidia-settings (accesible via gui in tthe Sysinfo tool)

You just choose how you want it and it generates an xorg file.
I'm using Twinview.

Only problem was getting it to accept that my CRT screen can do 1920x1200. Just used a modeline generator an added it to the config. then it worked.

there's a couple of glitches in Compiz I have found what looks like due to one screen being 1920 wide and the other being 1600 wide, but both 1200 high. Nothing major and only affected 1 or 2 compiz modules (that I don't use) after some more testing I'll let the relevent people know.

Angus-Higgins · 20 Jul 2007 at 12:05

Mine:

[Link]

I haven't changed much.

(I like having two monitors

).

Angus Higgins

markyb · 20 Jul 2007 at 12:09

Been using Ubuntu on my second rig all week now. Very tempeted to install it on my main pc and just use Windows for gaming.

Currently nothing to look at, but it just works. Love it!

z0mbi3 · 20 Jul 2007 at 12:21

Question for all you compiz fusion users. What key combination should rotate the cube, I assumed it would be ctrl-alt + left click and swivel but its not working for me. The other compiz effects seem to be and the plugin is definitley turned on.

SiriusB · 20 Jul 2007 at 13:39

Make sure you have the Cube and Rotate Cube plugins switched on.

If the cube is working Ctrl+Alt+[left or right arrow] should make the desktop change.