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how to rotate the cube and where to get Beryl

Asked by vtech

Hi I'm new to Linux/ubuntu OS. I just installed ubuntu from Wubi. I enable the desktop effects but I wasn't able to rotate the cube. What else I need to do inorder to rotate the cube? As for Beryl, Could you please tell me where can i download it?
Thanks.

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Xurc (motosuwa) said : 		#1

Use ctrl+alt+left click to rotate cube. More than that I don't know. I am n00b too.

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#2

My understanding is that beryl is more or less gone now. It remerged with compiz and the new one is called compiz-fusion. If you enabled "desktop effects" you got generic compiz. As for installing compiz-fusion there is a nice how to here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=481615

It's what I used and I had no issues.

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Best Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#3

Ubuntu Feisty has all the options one would get with Compiz/Beryl, though there is no graphical manager to enable/disable.
You can view using gconf-editor, then check /apps/compiz/

If the cube is not rotating, you may have not enabled the option for cube in System/Preferences/Desktop effects. In this case, you press Ctrl-Alt-<left/right arrow> to move to other virtual desktops.

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vtech (v-titleist) said : 		#4

Thanks Simos Xenitellis, that solved my question.

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#5

For the record, the "desktop effects" that are part of feisty IS compiz. It is the "more stable" and also more limited version of compiz that existed prior to the merger of compiz and beryl (now named compiz-fusion). I haven't paid much attention to this lately so I don't know if it will ship with the generic compiz or the jazzed up compiz-fusion.

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#6

For Feisty, in gconf-editor, you need to change the value of the key

/apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/hsize

from 1 to 4 in order to get the cube rotating.