The stunning 3ddesktop - does it work with fluxbox?!

DuF · Advocate Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris

big thanks for your help sieter and your explanation, I will try it asap !

DuF · Advocate Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris

Thanks, I was able to apply the patch with your help.
But I get new problems now

When I launch 3ddesktop I get this :

DuF · Advocate Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris

After some tries with the patch, I can't get it to work...
I have try with my other favorite WM, waimea, but I get exactly the same things...

If somebody have successfully instal and use 3ddesk with fluxbox (or waimea) I'm very interested !

Lockup · Guru Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 430

im using flux atm and i cant get it to work either, i only get one workspace listed....same after patching

sieter · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 111

3ddeskd --acquire won´t work for me neither,
did you try
3ddeskd --acquire 700

that´s what I do;
my configfile is unchanged btw....

Mindstab · Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 11:17 pm Post subject:

I use it fine with E. Tried it with blackbox, which flux is a decendent of, and it didn't work due to a... the way blackbox works, which I can assume flux inherited. BB and Flux have their own internal way of dealing with information pertaining to their virtual desktops and they dont advertise it much or provide a way to egt ahold of it so well... Conversly, Gnome , E, and kde and others, set up some information and hooks... so you can call some thing like GET_XATOM ( NUMBER_OF_DESKTPOS) and know how many desktops, and call it again and maybe get the a pointer to the desktop switching function. I believe the only way to get it out of black box and co. is to communicate with it directly, and that requires from what i saw
( I briefly tried a port, but was in way over my head) you needing to set up a X message loop and a lot of hassle. So i think the author is just waiting till the WM's conform a bit more. It shouldn't be that hard and I think a new version of BB wil support it soon. Follows that flux will (but as reading here, there way be a patch out for it somewhere too.)

Good luck.

DuF · Advocate Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris

I agree with you, but the problem is that after apply the patch, there is no change... it's worst because after patch 3ddesk can get only one desktop...

In my log when I launch 3ddesk I have this :

tropicalhandler · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Austin, TX

I've tried the 0.2.5 version released but not yet available in portage an still no go in flux. Anybody have any luck as of yet?

Visnu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 93

I'm using it in Flux as we speak.

tropicalhandler · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Austin, TX

I've tried the patch and various arguments with 3ddeskd, what did you do to get it to work?

jimlynch11 · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 5:02 am Post subject:

by far the coolest thing ive ever seen for a desktop...check out this animation...

http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/images/seq1.gif

too bad i can never get my radeon mobility to work with 3d :evil:

Visnu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 93

tropicalhandler · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Austin, TX

Ah, thanks for the help. It currently recognizes all my desktops, however, it uses the screenshot of my current desktop to 1 and starts the carousel to 1 no matter what desktop I am currently in. I guess I'll just have to play around with it.

It does look pretty though, thanks for your help.

khendon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 80

I added it to my flux menu like {3ddesk && 3ddesk --acquire}
Seems like the only way to make it restore my refreshrate once it's done.

onkelfusspilz · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject:

Hi,

3ddesk is cool, but I have the same problem with the refresh rate under KDE3 so it seems not to be fluxbox related.

If I use the command like you, 3ddesktop rebuilds my 4 desktop panes and this take about a second with flipping graphics, not so nice.

Isn't there a command to reset the refreshrate? Or is there a simple way to send "Ctrl + Alt + '+'" to the keyboardbuffer?

I dream of a "3ddesk && resetrefreshrate", any ideas?

tecknojunky · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:52 pm Post subject:

So, anyone got it working properly with flux? I still get only one screen captured, altough I recompiled flux with the patch.
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drakos7 · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 4:47 pm Post subject:

doing a standard emerge worked for me. Initially, only the current window had its contents displayed, but once I went to the other screens, those appeared correctly. Perhaps it should be started at X startup so that new windows are always kept current? As opposed to starting 3ddesk after you have filled your windows.

JoeG · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:40 pm Post subject:

Hey tecknojunky, just run

tecknojunky · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:29 pm Post subject:

JoeG · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 12:31 am Post subject:

Far as I can tell, the only thing you're doing that I'm not is fluxspace. Have you tried 3ddesktop without it running yet?
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tecknojunky · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 1:28 am Post subject:

mallchin · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:27 pm Post subject: press b & m

mallchin · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:31 pm Post subject: mmmph screenie

Egal · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 99

eee · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 12:45 am Post subject: No, it's not...