Cube size, skydomes and plugins

[Moif]

Hi there,

I was wondering how I make the cube smaller when you pan out and also how you make the skydome stay in place when you rotate.

Also, where do I put the plugins for the various effects?

Loving compiz btw, brilliant application.

[Sorcerer]

I don't think you can make the cube smaller.
To make the skydome stay in place you must uncheck either "animate" option under "Workspaces" in gnome-compiz-manager or /apps/compiz/plugins/cube/screen0/options/skydome_animated in gconf-editor.
List if plugins that you want Compiz to load is under /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins in gconf-editor.

[Moif]

I don't think you can make the cube smaller.
To make the skydome stay in place you must uncheck either "animate" option under "Workspaces" in gnome-compiz-manager or /apps/compiz/plugins/cube/screen0/options/skydome_animated in gconf-editor.
List if plugins that you want Compiz to load is under /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins in gconf-editor.

Thanks Sorceror, I now have a fixed background. However, I still can't see where I place the plugins that I downloaded from the Plugins Development forum on this site.

[Sorcerer]

Place them in /home/<your username here>/.compiz/plugins and then add to active_plugins.

[mikedee]

However, I still can't see where I place the plugins that I downloaded from the Plugins Development forum on this site.

If you are worried about that, you should install the compiz-extra package, this provides most of those plugins in a compiled form. The ones posted on the forum need to be compiled first.

Compiling and installing the plugins is just a case of unpacking them and then typing make install. You might not have the required libraries and utilities to compile so the procompiled might be easier.

[bitwise5]

I don't think you can make the cube smaller.

Maybe you could increase the amount of zoom in rotate cube -> general

[sheytan]

Hi... i have compiz fusion installed from Slackware package and i want to add some plugins, but in my /home/username dir i dont have any /.compiz folder. But i was created it, and add some new plugins (was installed in /root/.compiz/ ) and i saw the plugins in compiz menager, but they dont work... Why? ;(

srry for my bad eng.

[spirov92]

I had the zoom problem too, and I just figured it out. If you're using the compiz-manager on KDE, go to the 'rotate cube' plugin's settings and change the zoom value.
hope I helped you :)