What happened to the Ctrl F11 desktop rotating cube with mouse?

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It’s been several years since I last saw it, back when I used KDE.

But yesterday I tried giving it a try again on a test PC just out of curiosity.
I barely remembered what the key combination was -actually I had to search in google-, and discovered it no longer works.
I already enabled the cube desktop effect, and it works when switching desktops. But Ctrl + F11 (if it was the correct combination) no longer does something.

Any reason of why it was removed? Any way to get it back, if just for “entertainment”?
Thanks.

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@F_style:

It’s no longer a standard Keyboard Shortcut but, you can set it in the Global Shortcuts for KWin if you wish.

  • Because it seems that, there’s a move away from the “Cube”, an alternative is <Ctrl-F8> – display all desktops as a Raster – it’s a standard KWin Global Shortcut.

Further Plasma Keyboard Shortcuts are listed here: <https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/fundamentals/kbd.html>.

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With the cube effect enabled, I searched in Global Shortcuts > KWin, and didn’t find any setting related to the cube.

Also, what with “move away from cube”? What does it mean?

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That’s strange. It should be listed as ‘Desktop Cube’ with Ctrl+F11 configured by default. It should also show via Desktop Behaviour > Desktop Effects > Desktop Cube, there you can click on the middle icon and see the configured shortcut as well.

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Settings - configure desktop - Desktop Behavior - Desktop Effects - find the widget select the button that looks like controls to set the hot key and other settings

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Ah!! My mistake – I missed that, somewhere in the past with another Plasma version, this setting for KWin was deleted … :shame:

  • The Global Shortcuts setting should be searchable – type “cube” in the search bar near the top of the window – it should be listed as “Desktop Cube
    ”. - You also need to, in “Workspace
    ” → “Desktop behaviour” → “Desktop Effects” → “Window Management”, enable “Desktop Cube”.

I had the feeling that, the default animation when switching between Desktops is now “Slide”: “Desktop Effects” → “Virtual Desktop Switching Animation”.