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[-] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

THE CUBE!!!!!!

I love it!!!

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 months ago

Plasma 6 has so many fucking bugs. Holy shit it drives me crazy.

One thing is, that when starting Apex Legends, all Windows just suddenly start to loose the understanding on whether they should go below or over a Window when focused. They suddenly go below other windows when focused.

Sound System Notification sound too loud? Well, shit for you, you can't make it quieter now.

Having two monitors with each a panel on the bottom? After a suspend and wake up, its possible that your main panel or right one just goes inbetween those two Monitors.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Linux users telling you to use their new cool Desktop Environment is always bait.

[-] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Fr if I turn on my laptop with a monitor connected, the taskbar will be on the monitor, regardless of the settings, every time. Also Bluetooth definitively died.
I've been thinking of switching distros for a while, maybe a fresh install helps?

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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

Of course the cube doesn't work for me as I have six desktops and as we all know, cubes only have four sides 🙄

It is stupid and evil to reject cubic truth.

[-] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

That's not how the cube works...

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Why is everyone so hyped about this? As far as I remember the cube has been there since.... I can't even remember, I know KDE 3.5 had the cube but I'm not sure if it existed before, so it's literally been there for at least two decades.

[-] clemdemort@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

The cube was taken away from us but it has been brought back in plasma 6

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I remember those nights configuring compiz to perfection. It had amazing look and feel. It was a sight to behold.

Then I realized how useless it was and reverted it all to standard 2D workspaces.

[-] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 13 points 3 months ago

I first beheld the glory of the cube in 2009. It was transcendental. I almost felt my soul leaving my body and ascending to a higher plane of consciousness, where few have treaded and those that truly grasp its majesty, yet fewer still. I was swept up in the spiritual, yet fleeting, ephemeral, and mercurial experience that was like no other. We were no more than ants trying to understand Einstein’s Relativity, or dung beetles oblivious to the sonorous rapture of Mozart.

I flipped the cube for a couple more times to show it to my unimpressed wife, and promptly never booted into Ubuntu since.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I was a little late getting to the compiz party but I used it as my default WM for years and years. It is still being updated and is now extremely stable (which I understand was the biggest issue in its early days). I have surrendered to the darkside though and just use KDE cause it does everything that almost anyone could need now and it does it pretty good.

[-] MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I havent thought about compiz since college. I was so cool with my vdm. Until it was time to play WoW and I had to boot to windows. Wasnt too bad, though, got it down to a few minutes by disabling all that shiny nonsense in 7 to make it look like xp.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago

It was dropped from Kwin for awhile. Now it's back.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Why is everyone so hyped about this?

Part nostalgia, part simply because it became a meme to use it.

[-] vynaaa@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I am pretty sure Plasma 5 didn't have it by default. There might have been a 3rd-party extension, though.

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 22 points 3 months ago

I have setup the cube to a hotkey and only used it to test if it is working. It's amazing, but kind of useless. :D

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

what is the cube ?? so intriguing

[-] Twitches@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5oBSlNNTPRc

Sorry for the straight link, but, this is the cube. The cube is pretty cool

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago

That's been around for a while hasn't it?

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 14 points 3 months ago

Depends on what you mean by "a while". The cube is known since a decade, but was lost to old tech based on compiz. Since then some people tried to bring it back on the newer desktop environments through extensions and a new implementation of the idea. I think someone wrote an extension for GNOME before. The version on KDE is independent from that and different.

[-] arviceblot@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago

compiz and emerald, wow I was not expecting to unlock that memory tonight!

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, that about lines up with the last time I saw it I think and compiz sounds familiar. Cool to see they brought it back!

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

i also remember having the cube around the same time in OSX somehow but I forget the method

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

We only accept gay links here, buddy.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Oooh I've seen this years ago ! looks pretty cool. It's basically a workspace switcher.

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[-] noddy@beehaw.org 13 points 3 months ago

It's not useless. It's a gateway drug for getting into linux. "But can your windows PC do this?" is a great way to recruit people to try linux ;)

[-] fschaupp@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, but not out of the box. 😅

[-] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Meanwhile, Manjaro Users on 5.27 in the back:

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[-] Kristof12@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Good that they will receive plasma 6 patched

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I admit that I'm a little disappointed I can't set it as my virtual desktop switch animation, and that it defaults to pointing down when invoked, but I am hopeful it's just a matter of time on those details. :)

It ain't quite the compiz/beryl cube, nor even what I remember as the last iteration of the kwin cube, but it's a step in the right direction!

[-] dan@upvote.au 9 points 3 months ago

The Compiz cube was fun... I blogged about it nearly 20 years ago. https://d.sb/2006/09/laptop-linux-and-compiz

[-] tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Fun trip down memory lane. Also, bitchin' domain name!

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks!

I need to redesign my site one day. Simplify it. The current design is from 2008, using design features (like the striped backgrounds) that were popular back then.

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Ohhh man I wasn’t ready for how nostalgic the screenshots would make me feel. My friend from school told me about Ubuntu and OSS for the first time, and he came over to my house so we could mess around with the live CD. That’s what Ubuntu looked like back then!

[-] Rekhyt@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah I remember using the Compiz cube on Ubuntu 8(?)

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Nice. Will check it out!

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[-] Amongussussyballs100@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

What is this cube everyone is so happy about?

[-] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

Cube virtual desktop switcher. It's pretty great.

[-] erwan@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Yeah that reminds me when I was using Compiz in the late 2000's, until I got bored of it 😀

[-] creation7758@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Idk. I just use a budget rs3m. Sub 30 btw

[-] WereCat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

If I learned anything when using Blender, it's that the first thing you do is to delete the default cube.

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