Folks,

Is there a way in Beryl to configure keyboard shortcuts to access either of the four sides of the cube ? It's easy to do in KDE and I have Alt-1, Alt.2, etc... for each desktop. It#d be nice to be able to do the same in Beryl.

Cheers.

Control Alt Right and Control Alt Left or mouse wheel when it's over the desktop vs when it's over an application.

That's exactly not it. As my example above with regular KDE, it seems that there's no way to access one cube side directly with using a keyboard shortcut.

To draw a picture, if the monitor shows cube face # 1 and the user wants to access cube face # 3 he/she would then have to rotate past either cube face #2 or 4. Or flip the cube over.

It seems there'no key shortcut like Ctrl-1, Ctrl-2, Ctrl-3, Ctrl-4 for instance to do show presto the face of a cube.

That'll take too long, eh?

This seems like a "duuuuhh" to me, though I could be wrong.

I'm pretty sure that if you go into Gnome's config menu (Desktop > Prefs, I think), you can set keyboard shortcuts in there.

I use KDE and as I've pointed out at the start of the thread I already use Alt-1 for desktop 1, Alt-2 for desktop 2, so on so forth for all the desktops I use. For years I use to keep remote machines on desktop 4 and Firefox on desktop 3 and development tools on desktop 2, for instance.

These keyboard shortcuts do not work when Beryl is loaded. Hence my question. There are a zillion and a half options in Beryl and so far I did not find any that assigns faces of the cube to a keyboard shortcut, what ever that shortcut is.

Not only that, the rotating cube, while nice at times, is a bit bothersome when you switch back and forth say, between your development tools and a desktop where the apps actually run, and a desktop with a browser to read documentation. Windows users crams everything in one desktop but throughout the years I've taken the Linux/UNIX habit to dedicated desktops to specific stuff and to switch as a snap between them.

Maybe Beryl is not made for developers after all.

If so, then how do the Beryl developers work ? ;-))

Maybe with dual monitors, one showing the Beryl stuff and the other the regular desktops with the development tools and all that.

Cheers.

You can always poke around here http://www.beryl-project.org/.

Ahh, I thought you'd switched to GNOME and you were confused. My bad!

I *THINK* there may be something in the Beryl-manager... there is in plain old Compiz-manager, but I've never tryed Beryl. Try looking under the Cube or Rotate Cube sections in the manager.

I've found it after installing Beryl on a i686 at work. They now have this perhaps simplified options application - it's certainly better than before. So, under 'rotating the cube' there are a few shortcuts pertaining to which face of the cube. I've used Alt-1, Alt-2 and so forth and it works nice.

Interestingly enough they have cube faces up to ten or such under this key bindings section. I guess it's for faces of other cubes (eg. desktops in plain KDE).

On the other hand I did a Beryl update on a x86_64 machine and it simply craps out. All the faces of the cube are white. When seeing this I did a Nvidia update (again using kyum - FC6) but it didn't improve things. So it's no Beryl for the x86_64 machine for now. But I have it at work ! ;-)

Cheers.

I'm not sure, but I think the shortcuts in Beryl/compiz are linked directly to the WM. Probably not, just a pet idea. Those 10 faces could be a unfinished feature, though, as Beryl and Compiz don't actually use the KDE vwm. Try setting it to one desktop, and chances are the function will still work the same as 4.

Try this for the all white fix. In the beryl setting manager, advanced options, select
Copy in the Rendering Path, and Use Cow in the Composite Overlay Window options.

That fixed it for me. You take a slight performance hit, but it wasnt too bad on my system.
Hopefully this will be fixed/improved in future updates.