Brice Goglin wrote:
Kevin Brown wrote:The cube effect is cool and gimmicky based on the videos I've seen (I haven't been able to get it to work at all myself),Well, what doesn't work? If you have hsize > 1, what happens when you try to move a window to the right of your screen? or if you press ctrl-alt-left/right? It should rotate.
That does nothing.ctrl-alt-bottom gets me all the faces of the cube but left and right don't do anything. Looks like the keys for that would be space and backspace, but the cube stays up only as long as ctrl and alt are pressed down, and space still does nothing in that context, even if I change it to include <Control><Alt>.
but doesn't look to be as clean and direct as the workspace switcher, and doesn't show you at a glance what your window layout across your workspaces (whether they're separate or not) looks like.You should just use ctrl-alt-bottom to see all faces of the cube at once and then left/right to switch between them. It's much nicer than the workspace switcher since it's much bigger and you can still see the (reduced) contents of the windows.
I can see all the faces but not manipulate them in any way. How/where do you have your keys mapped for this?
So from a strict usability standpoint, the workspace switcher looks like a better way to go, in my opinion.Still, I don't see why use compiz then :)
Because the other effects, like the fade-in and fade-out of windows and such, make for a much more pleasant desktop experience.
And the scale effect is *very* nice and useful for picking a window that's on the current workspace.
-- Kevin Brown kevin@sysexperts.com