Ben, I've played with ccsm at length to try to get the 3D behaviour, but with no luck. In the 'Desktop' section I currently have Desktop Cube and Rotate Cube enabled with all the default options chosen in each. Should I be enabling some other plugins or making other changes in ccsm as well to get the correct operation? BTW, I'm not sure I exactly understood your question. When I Ctrl-Alt-Right or Ctrl-Alt-Left the "cube" rotates properly to the next/previous face or viewport. I also have Ctrl-F1 -> Ctrl-F9 successfully rotating to face 1 through 9 as well. That all works. What isn't happening is that on Ctrl-Alt-Down I don't get a true 3D image a la the demo video I've seen, but instead just that set of flat scrollable faces which I can then shift left and right to select the one I want when I release the Ctrl-Alt key combo. This puts the currently rotated face back on my desktop in fullscreen. The interface I'm seeing is more like a semi-distant wall in the middle 1/3 of the screen with a ribbon of panels representing each face that can be shifted left or right, as opposed to a true 3D cube with full perspective. Even cube reflection "works" in this current setup with the faces each reflected in the lower 1/3 of the window. I can try to do a screen capture (not sure exactly how in this environment) to show you what I mean, if that would help. Again, thanks muchly. --ted Ben Kevan said the following on 11/10/2007 04:50 PM:
On Saturday 10 November 2007 12:49:25 pm Ted Markowitz wrote:
Ben,
Thanks for trying to help us out here. Forgive my naivete (or just plain old ignorance ;-), but I was under the impression that if one was running the native NVidia driver (100.14.19, which I downloaded from NVidia and installed manually) and an up-to-date, composite-enabled Xorg (7.2.0 in my case) that one didn't need to use Xgl as the X-server to get compiz-fusion and emerald to work. Indeed Xorg 7.2 and compiz seem to work pretty well on the face of it, including wobbly windows and most of the other plug-ins like animation, except no 3D cubes---just a flat set of scrolling panels when you Ctrl-Alt-Down that take up about 1/3 of screen as Bob described. This is the "ribbon" of left-right, scrollable viewport faces I was trying to explain in my note. I can pan them left and right to select one for focus, but nothing like the 3D cube in the demos.
That is actually the default behavior of Compiz Fusion I believe.
Have you gone into ccsm and configured the cubes? What happens when you do Control + Alt + Left Mouse Click + Mouse Movement do?
Ben
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