Multiple Screen & Desktop Cube

[linuxlvr]

I have Kubuntu 7.10 running and i have recently installed compiz fuzion
af the the installation completed i had 8 desktops instead of my specified 4, and when i went into configure desktop it said i still only had 4, but when i looked down at my taskbar it showed that i had 8, can anyone tell me how to fix this, or is it already supposed 2 do that?

also i would like to get my desktop cube running but I am not sure how 3 do that at the moment.,,,,,,,,,,,thkx

[dibl]

Re: Multiple Screen & Desktop Cube

Yep. Compiz doesn't know that it's on a Kubuntu KDE desktop with a default setting of "2", so it multiplies times 4 and you end up with 8.

Right-click an empty place on your desktop, choose "configure desktop" and "multiple desktops" and change it to "1". Refresh your Compiz window manager and you should end up with a cube.

[linuxlvr]

Re: Multiple Screen & Desktop Cube

how do i refresh my compiz window manager?
can i just reboot?

[linuxlvr]

Re: Multiple Screen & Desktop Cube

i also went into emerald theme manager and clicked the refresh butteon adn then i pressed ctrl+alt and clicked the left mouse button and dragged i only saw 2 desktops which went back and forth....

[dibl]

Re: Multiple Screen & Desktop Cube

I think in Kubuntu you have to open a Konsole window and enter

compiz --replace

to get it to change the window manager. There's supposed to be a "Fusion Icon" but for some reason the Kubuntu repository doesn't have it.

[Snowhog]

Re: Multiple Screen & Desktop Cube

With Compiz set correctly, and KWin set correctly, then when Compiz is running and you see the wrong number of pagers, press Alt+F2 and type:

dcop kicker default restart

[linuxlvr]

Re: Multiple Screen & Desktop Cube

i typed in compiz --replace
and this is what i got

Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0422 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1680x1050) to maximum 3D texture size (8192): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting emerald
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format

[linuxlvr]

Re: Multiple Screen & Desktop Cube

and dcop kicker default restart
got rid of the close, minimize, and maximize bar(i can't think of what u call it at the moment..)

[linuxlvr]

Re: Multiple Screen & Desktop Cube

any other suggestions??