Rotating Cube With Mouse

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There really needs to be a central place with usability documentation for KDE.

In Compiz I used to hold down the middle mouse button to spin the cube. KDE doesn’t seem to do that. I don’t like having to move back and forth a lot. Once my hand is on the mouse I want it to stay there and once my hands are on the keyboard I want them to stay there.

Is there a way to spin the cube in Kde4 with the mouse?

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You have to press ctrl + F11 first then you can spin it by moving the mouse but not with the scroll wheel

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Thanks, I realize that. It’s cumbersome. The “old” way CTRL+ALT+Arrow and Mousewheel were much more efficient.

So there is no way to change the way the cube is spun?

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Hi
ccsm -> rotate cube -> bindings tab to configure

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Changing the Compiz settings don’t change anything. I think I have to switch fro Kwin to Compiz as the window manager. Let me try that and report back.

Thanks :slight_smile:

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After reading on broken Emerald packages and so forth, I don’t think I want to fully enable Compiz-fusion. Also problems with Nvidia and XGL.

I really wish I could spin the cube with my mouse. Oh well. Perhaps in the future.

Thanks for the help all.

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Hi
I’m using compiz-fusion 0.7.6, XGL and nvidia drivers here without any
issues whatsoever… but with Gnome. The only reason I got the 0.7.6
was for the sphere :slight_smile:

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if your using kwin for the desktop effects in kde 4.1.2 then you can use the screen edge to put up the cube and then use your mouse to spin it that way you don’t have to take your hand off the mouse

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You go into ccsm > rotate cube > Binding and under initiate configure it to “Button2” and take off ctrl+alt.
On my usb mouse, button2 was the middle button. I don’t think it would be different on yours.
Ubuntu had that, i loved it.

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And in opensuse button2 (middle click) rotates in any window. On Ubuntu, it required you to click the desktop, then press the middle butto. At least if you were in FireFox

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THen again thats the gnome version… but basically still the same idea, right?

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Yeah, middle mouse doesn’t do anything. I just use the pager now if I need to go to a desktop with the mouse.