Beryl Questions

As I mentioned in a previous thread, I've finally gotten Beryl to play nice w/ the Nvidia drivers on my Dell XPS M1210 (GeForce Go 7400 graphics) running Ubuntu Edgy and I'm having a ball playing w/ all the plug-ins & other toys, but have a few minor questions...

1) I can rotate the cube and drag windows to different sides of the cube w/o any problems, but each side of the cube is just a copy of the same desktop/workspace. I.e. on the bottom right of the Edgy desktop, I've got it set for 4 workspaces, but each face of the cube ends up as the same workspace. Any ideas on how to fix this?

2) How do I take a screenshot while rotating the cube if I'm already pressing ctrl+alt+left mouse button?

3) Is it possible to have a different desktop/workspace on all 6 sides of the cube instead of 4 and the Beryl jewel graphic on the top & bottom?

4) I've noticed a lot of the shortcuts in the settings menu refer to a "super" key...what key is this?

Wow...that turned out to be a lot more questions than I thought it'd be, but thanks in advance. Also I'm just getting my feet wet, so if this stuff is already documented, please be gentle w/ me!

Cheers in advance,

HH

 

The "Super" key is usually your third mouse button. A few laptops (such as mine) have 3 mouse buttons, but nearly every standard mouse with scroll wheel allows you to click the scroll wheel like a button, and this is usually the "Super" button. In addition, you can use Ctrl+Alt+"Super" to go into the cube, and then you can let go of all the buttons and just rotate it with the mouse. That will free up a finger to take the screenshot. I would imagine that the "Super" key is customizable and could be mapped to any key on the keyboard/mouse though, but I'm not sure.

And I have no idea about your other two questions, and I don't really get that deep into Beryl.

 

Next time you're outside of Beryl, make sure Metacity is also running with four workspaces.

Once you CTRL + ALT + Middle Mouse, you can rotate the cube just by moving the mouse, you can then reach over and press the print screen button freely. If you have no middle mouse button, press both the left and right at the same time.

Not that I am aware of.

It's the key with the "Windows" logo on it.

 

I usually use the capture screen apps Kde or gnome version, and set it on like a 5 sec timer to capture the cube.

But if your want to do it the shortcut way, just open Beryl setting and you can see/edit or create shortcuts. There is ALOT of setting, so I haven't had the time the to play with each one yet.

 

you can't have the top and bottom of the cube be workspaces/viewports, although you can change the image that it displayed.

You can also have up to 12 (I think) sides to your "object"... I know a fair number of people run with 6 or more.

 

Ok, good to go as far as cube screenshots goes, so here's what I've got.

Horizontal Virtual Size = 4
Vertical Virtual Size = 1
Number of Desktops = 4 (set via Metacity, not Beryl)

Yet for some reason it gives me a cube w/ only one face, as shown in the attached pics.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

 

Well, it's showing your panels for 4 desktops, just not any backgrounds or windows. Do you have any windows on the other desktops?

 

Just setup the screen delay, and you will get this.

 

You can also disable drawing the "cap" pieces, so it'll look a little less funky, you won't have those random hanging rectangles with gems in them there. Unless we could figure out how to do a transparent color on that... I wonder if a PNG with a transparency as a cap image would show up correctly? I'll test that this weekend if no one else gets to it first