Sunday, March 04, 2007

Desktop Cube? How About Desktop Hexadecagon

Pretty much everyone these days knows about Beryl and its desktop cube, but did you know your cube can have as many as 16 sides? I sure didn't, and I'm guessing a lot of fellow Beryl users don't either. I just happened to stumble across this while playing with the settings and I thought it was pretty cool.

So this is what my desktop normally looks like, a pretty standard-looking desktop cube.

To add more desktops, just go into Beryl settings, general tab, scroll down and change the value of horizontal virtual size.

That's all you have to do! This is what happens when you max it out at 16 desktops. It won't let you zoom out far enough to see the whole thing, but you can get the idea. I'm not sure why you'd want that many, for the few minutes that I had that many I got quite confused where all my windows were, but you have to admit that looks pretty cool.

On the other hand, here is a 2 desktop plane.

3 Desktop triangle.

Here I have 8 desktops, plus I re-enabled the caps to show how the cap images are drawn.

So there you go, now instead of playing with your desktop cube, have fun spinning these around.



49 comments:

Airencracken said...

With your background and the Hexadecagon your desktops look a bit like Halo. :D

linnerd40 said...

Awesome man! Good stuff!

Alexander Somma said...

That's cool. Do you have any idea how to deal with the dreaded Beryl white screen bug?

Anonymous said...

the background picture is pretty cool,
the world seen from space, can you
post it here pls ?

Anonymous said...

and still the purpose of having 16 sides....

Anonymous said...

NICE!

Can you post a link to your skycap please?

Anonymous said...

what background is that? some app running in the root window?

Anonymous said...

Pretty cool shots.

I only wish there was some links as well as hardware specs. Could you pliz post them ?

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Larsen said...

Ok, I have Ubuntu 6.10 + Beryl, so how did you get the earth background, and the "2" desktop cbe?

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Man this is really nice, I didnt know about it either.

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And do you really like it?

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how do you do this tho, i looked everywhere

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Anonymous said...

OK so I need to know. Where did you get that skydome?

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What image did you use for the background/space thing? And what format must they be as I've tried one before and it cashed Beryl.

Anonymous said...

What background image type (as in the Earth one you've got) are you supposed to use? I used a regular JPG once but it crashed the Beryl.

Anonymous said...

Would you please post a link to your skydome image?

Kevitivity said...

Beryl is a fork a Compiz. Compiz has become the standard in Ubuntu now. Will this feature get pushed to Compiz?

Anonymous said...

Where can I find that skydome image?

Anonymous said...

Hmm, maybe I've spent too much time playing latest games but what's wrong with these shots? They look awful.

Anonymous said...

Cool! I've been looking for that feature forever. Where'd you get the image for the skydome?

Anonymous said...

wonderful. I work with 5 desktops normally, so this makes me happy.

Anonymous said...

This is one hard to read site. Didn't your mamma tell you black web pages suck?

btaub said...

The resolution of the skydome image has to be 1024x1024 or beryl won't like it. Compare the pic you're trying to use w/ the sample the pkg provides.

Anonymous said...

First: Relly good stuff man!
Second: about beryl's white screen bug - if u'll try to spin the cube (Or whatever it is [:-D]) u'll see the caps image - so its about the rendering path:
1)Login to non-xgl\aiglx\or whatever other than beryl's session and change the settings as following:
[Right Click on Beryl-Manager]-->[Advanced beryl settings]-->[Rendering path]-->[Copy]
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