I have a 7x3 arrangement of workspaces.
I just tried turning on desktop effects. Immediately I notice that the switcher no longer displays an iconic representation of windows in other workspaces. Is there a way to restore this behaviour?
I'm also a little confused about worksapces on a cube - it seems to be that each individual workspace has a total of 7 desktop panes. This seems rather peculiar to me, as a cube has 6 faces (or it did last time I looked). So I now seems to have about 147 desktop panes, which is rather more than I need - I think i should cut down on my workspace count :-).
Anyway, I thought I'd ask here for help. I did try System->Help first, but a help window opens, and then immediately fades, which isn't exacttly helpful! Is there a configuration for desktop effects? (apart from the turn-on, workspace-on-a-cube, wobbly windows bit).
Where is the documentation on all these phenomenona?
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 07:29 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I have a 7x3 arrangement of workspaces.
I just tried turning on desktop effects. Immediately I notice that the switcher no longer displays an iconic representation of windows in other workspaces. Is there a way to restore this behaviour?
I'm also a little confused about worksapces on a cube - it seems to be that each individual workspace has a total of 7 desktop panes. This seems rather peculiar to me, as a cube has 6 faces (or it did last time I looked). So I now seems to have about 147 desktop panes, which is rather more than I need - I think i should cut down on my workspace count :-).
Anyway, I thought I'd ask here for help. I did try System->Help first, but a help window opens, and then immediately fades, which isn't exacttly helpful! Is there a configuration for desktop effects? (apart from the turn-on, workspace-on-a-cube, wobbly windows bit).
Where is the documentation on all these phenomenona?
KDE or Gnome?
poc
"Patrick" == Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com writes:
Patrick> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 07:29 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: >> I have a 7x3 arrangement of workspaces. >> >> I just tried turning on desktop effects. Immediately I notice >> that the switcher no longer displays an iconic representation >> of windows in other workspaces. Is there a way to restore this >> behaviour? >> >> I'm also a little confused about worksapces on a cube - it >> seems to be that each individual workspace has a total of 7 >> desktop panes. This seems rather peculiar to me, as a cube has >> 6 faces (or it did last time I looked). So I now seems to have >> about 147 desktop panes, which is rather more than I need - I >> think i should cut down on my workspace count :-). >> >> Anyway, I thought I'd ask here for help. I did try System->Help >> first, but a help window opens, and then immediately fades, >> which isn't exacttly helpful! Is there a configuration for >> desktop effects? (apart from the turn-on, workspace-on-a-cube, >> wobbly windows bit). >> >> Where is the documentation on all these phenomenona?
Patrick> KDE or Gnome?
GNOME.
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 07:29 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I have a 7x3 arrangement of workspaces.
I just tried turning on desktop effects. Immediately I notice that the switcher no longer displays an iconic representation of windows in other workspaces. Is there a way to restore this behaviour?
I'm also a little confused about worksapces on a cube - it seems to be that each individual workspace has a total of 7 desktop panes. This seems
Did you log out and back in after turning on desktop effects? I saw the same behaviour until I did that, then everything worked as expected.
"Brian" == Brian Mury brianmury@alumni.uvic.ca writes:
Brian> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 07:29 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: >> I have a 7x3 arrangement of workspaces. >> >> I just tried turning on desktop effects. Immediately I notice >> that the switcher no longer displays an iconic representation >> of windows in other workspaces. Is there a way to restore this >> behaviour? >> >> I'm also a little confused about worksapces on a cube - it >> seems to be that each individual workspace has a total of 7 >> desktop panes. This seems
Brian> Did you log out and back in after turning on desktop
Brian> effects? I saw the same behaviour until I did that, then Brian> everything worked as expected.
No, I hadn't.
So now I have tried that. Immediately I see only one workspace, with all the windows unmovable and obscuring the GNOME menu bar.
So I close some of the windows, so I can disable desktop effects. All is working now. I then try re-enbaling desktop effects, but the system r3eports that it is unable to do so.