Re: [MLUG] Compiz (was "Parallels vs. VMware Fusion for the Mac?")

[Aaron Jackson <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The cube is really just eye candy. There are more functional plugins that 
do what you're talking about where they show all desktops at once. Has 
anyone used screenlets yet? They finally got the widget layer hotkey mess 
fixed in the ubuntu repos. You can now just press F9 and all of your 
wideted screenlets will popup on top of a darkened background. Supposedly 
this has been configurable for a long time, but time spent on productivity 
much out weighs time spent getting eye candy working :-P.

You still have to do some added configuration on ubuntu to get all of compiz-fusion 
enabled. In Gutsy they have two effects settings low and high (don't 
remember the exact working off the top of my head). You have to install 
the compizfusion-manager to get the custom button added to the effects 
settings tab in gnome. Gutsy made all of this appear seamless, pretty 
cool.

Yolan

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On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Rick wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I can barely function without at least two monitors anymore, although 
> > window grouping with CompizFusion helps *a lot*.
>
> The thing I don't get is the cube.  I'd rather see all sides laid out in a 
> matrix on the screen than have some on the backside of the cube.  For 
> example, I could go for a 4x4 layout and skip the cube.
>
> I'm going to have to get Ubuntu on my desktop real soon.  It's about time. It 
> sounds like it's working great now.
>
> Mike
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