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Compiz cube not working with 12.04 in gnome classic or unity

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I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 on my Dell Studio XPS (Specs at end of post) with nvidia-current installed as the proprietary drivers and I'm mainly using Gnome Classic but this issue does happen in Unity too.

According to the workspace switcher in the corner, I have 4 workspaces in a 2x2 format, when I click on another workspace it only switches between 2. Selecting workspace 3 on the launcher switches to 1 and 4 switches to 2. I have the compiz cube enabled and when rotating workspaces it is just a plane with a dekstop on each face rather than the cube.

If I go into the compiz settings and have a look at the number of workspaces, it only shows 1 and if I increase them to 4 the workspace switcher changes to a 4x1 arrangement and selecting any of the other 3 not just changes to that workspace but without a desktop environment or any windows (including conky). If it hit CTRL+ALT+T for terminal, it then jumps back to workspace 1 and opens a terminal.

I have been using my laptop with another monitor configured in twinview, but I have also tried disabling this and using one monitor and the issue still occurs.

In want to configure it to have 4 workspaces which display properly in the compiz cube and it would be nice to have this working across both monitors.

[It would be wonderful to have 4 workspaces for each monitor and a separate cube and switcher for each one giving 8 total but I think that's just greedy :p]

Laptop spec

i7-2630QM

12GB RAM

NVIDIA gefore 555M (3D display so optimus is disabled ignores the intel HD3000)

17" Screen 1920x1080

Second monitor acer p223w 1680x1050

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answered 1 Year ago wheance · Accepted Answer

Note that the switcher icon in the launcher will always show 2x2, regardless of your actual workspace layout.

The Compiz Cube is designed to work only with horizontal one-dimensional workspace layouts, not the default 2x2 Ubuntu Unity layout; changing to a 1x4 (1 vertical, 4 horizontal) workspace layout should fix it.

To make that work:

Open CCSM, go to General, and set the workspace layout to 1x4:

Now disable Desktop Wall and enable the Desktop Cube and Rotate Cube plugins.

The default cube transition speed can be so fast that it looks like a plane. To adjust, you can tweak the Additional Settings in the Rotate Cube plugin

After enabling all this, reboot!

Here's a Youtube video showing the cube fully functional with 4 workspaces on one monitor. The applications are Firefox, Synaptic, Terminal and Software Center, one on each workspace.