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Friday, May 19th, 2006

Changing the top image on an XGL “cube”

Ok, so you’ve gotten over the initial shock that you can twist turn and rotate your XGL desktop. Now you notice that grey, glah image at the top of the cube and wonder… “can I change that?” Of course you can.

First, copy your image as a .png over to /usr/share/compiz/ as root. Let’s say its image.png

Fire up gconf-editor and first go to key “apps -> compiz -> plugins -> cube -> screen0 -> options” and edit the “images” key and add an entry for “image.png” in the order you want for priority. If you twist your cube to reveal the top you should see your image now.

Next try this – go to “apps -> compiz -> plugins -> rotate -> screen0 -> options” and turn on (check) the snap-top key. This allows you to turn the cube so you’re looking at the top and the top will then snap into place to cover your screen as if it were another workspace.

Snaps into place to show:

Gentoo logo on an OpenSUSE Desktop cube…

Next up – skydome – the background around the cube… you can even animate it.

Thanks Moosy – you pointed me to the right places.