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MHCompiz Cube Video Tutorial: Part 3
Let’s enable the desktop cube in Compiz, this tutorial will show you how:
From CCSM under Desktop click to enable Desktop Cube (and then disable Desktop Wall), and enable Rotate Cube. Under Effects enable Cube Reflection and Deformation (and resolve the conflict by disabling Next Slide) and 3D Windows.
Now we click on Desktop Cube and then the Appearance tab, and click on Skydome (Skydome is the image displayed behind the cube, on the “sky”). From here we click on the first checkbox to enable the background, and then Skydome Image to browse to the picture we want to use. Note – if you click “Animate Skydome” the background image will rotate when you rotate the cube.
Going then to Cube Reflection and Deformation and choose Appearance. Here we’ll set the top and bottom images, or “caps.” Just click New and browse to the images wanted, and you can then remove the default images by clicking on them then clicking Delete. Then we choose the Reflection tab and click on the Reflection Mode, then Distance. Next we choose the Deformation tab and then Sphere for a spherical “cube,” Cylinder for a cylindrical one, and None for a normal cube. Note – Aspect ratio will make your sphere look more round or more squished (oblong?) depending on what you put there.
CTRL-ALT-leftmousebutton is the default for rotating your sphere.
Next we will install the compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported. Open up a terminal and enter the following command:
$ sudo aptitude install compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported
When that is done enter CCSM and enable Snow under Extras, for a little freezing fun. Super/Windowskey-f3 starts and stops the snow falling.
Have fun!
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so you’re the redheaded stepchild now? i’m sorry… you could always go back to blond. :-P
so i have to ask, after those cube caps… are you straight?
Red hair is HOT and who cares if she’s straight?
Hello Nixie! Where did you get that Wallpaper with the Spirals? I love it.
hi Nixie,
You hae an amazing combination of screen presence, voice, sys admin skills and video editing skills. Plus, you are attuned to making things look beautiful. I would love to work with you to remix video for a documentary movie that I am producing about FOSS. The documentary is called the Digital Tipping Point. I emailed you with details. I am happy to answer any other questions that you might have!
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Looks like cube is my limit, sphere works really slow and with pictures it just freezes leaving me stuck on a partial sphere, making text difficult to read!
Cylinder works OK, as long as there are no pictures :(
Still I shouldn’t really expect anymore from a low powered laptop. Everything else works, and I am still showing off the burn effect to everyone I can!
Can you let me know what graphics you used for the top and the bottom of the sphere also what video card do you have? Great HOWTO
Thanks for this tutorial. I’ve used Ubuntu for a year or two now, and never knew about the compiz extras. Keep it up!
thanks for video and tutorial
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Stupid Compiz not having all the options installed on my Ubuntu… what is wrong? i don’t have the burn, the explode, or the deformation, and ofc half ot the options are missing…