3 Steps To Turn-On Desktop Cube

In Ubuntu, by default, you cannot see the beauty of compiz desktop cube and desktop rotation. You must turn it on manually. Here are 3 steps to do it:

1. Open Terminal and type: sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-managerThis is the GUI tool to easily manage the compiz configuration.
2. Go to System->Preferences->CompizConfig Settings Manager. On the left panel, click General. On the right, click General Options. Go to Desktop Size tab and set Horizontal Virtual Size to 4 then click Back button on left panel.
3. Now click Desktop on left panel. On the right, tick off Desktop Cube and Rotate Cube to enable them. Later, if you want to change the appearance of your cube, just enter the Desktop Cube menu. While if you want to change the rotation setting, enter the Rotate Cube menu.

Now you can try it. Push Ctrl+Alt buttons together then left-click any area on the screen and move your mouse. Wow...look at that. Cool hah?

But wait...if your desktop form is not a cube (cylinder or sphere) or if you want to change the form (or effects), follow these steps:

1. On the left panel, click Effects. On the right, tick off and click Cube Reflection and Deformation.
2. In Cube caps tab, you can change the appearance of top and bottom side of the cube.
3. In Reflection tab, you can manage the background reflection while the cube is rotating
4. And in Deformation tab, you can change the form of the cube to sphere or cylinder.

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Compiz Error After Setting Desktop Effect To None

May be this is one of many reasons why people still thinking that Linux is wearying OS. For example, when you are playing with the system settings or your desktop preferences, your system suddenly stop working and you don’t know what the hell is going on. Then you are shocked and thinking hard what you have to do to make your system works again.

But it doesn’t matter if you have a big curiosity in Linux. Just open firefox or the other browsers and start to search the solutions of your problems like what I will explain in this post.

It was an accident when I click None option in desktop effect setting. I thought it’s not a problem coz I could reset the setting back to Extra option. So I reset the option. But I was wrong, suddenly I got the message telling me that compiz-daemon couldn’t be started. Oh sh*t…what’s the going on?

After searching for the solutions by using many keywords, I got a nice script to detect compiz problems. The script name was compiz-check. This script doesn’t only detect compiz problems but it can also repair the problems. So if you get this problem just download compiz-check and run in your terminal.

Before you run compiz-check, change the permission to make it executable:
$ chmod 744 compiz-check
$ ./compiz-check



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