Desktop effects, workspaces, and the workspace switcher

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 13:56:01 UTC 2008


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




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