Enabling Sidebutton Cube Rotation in Compiz Fusion
Posted by hank, Mon Nov 05 01:29:00 UTC 2007
I recently was saddened when I found out that my side buttons wouldn’t map for some reason in Compiz Fusion after upgrading to Gutsy Gibbon. I finally got fed up and marched on down to #compiz-fusion on Freenode.
21:06 < Jupiter1tx> hardwarehank: ah there is the problem, if the settings are not saved then try to disable Integration in the Preferences section of ccsm
21:07 < hardwarehank> Jupiter1tx: thanks - trying it
21:07 < hardwarehank> ok - it still deletes the settings and never starts working
21:08 < hardwarehank> i close ccsm and restart it, and its remapped to Button:None
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21:14 < hardwarehank> what does it mean when binding names are blue?
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21:14 < Jupiter1tx> hardwarehank: it means Integration is still enabled
21:15 < hardwarehank> DAMN!
21:15 < Jupiter1tx> hardwarehank: you might find it easier just to change to flat-file backend
21:15 < hardwarehank> heh ok
21:16 < hardwarehank> Jupiter1tx: you're my hero - it works
21:16 < hardwarehank> oh man im so happy
The solution is very simple.
Disable Integration into the Desktop Environment
This is accomplished through Preferences from the root screen of ccsm.
Map the keys in Rotate Cube
Now that that’s done, go to the keybinding section of Rotate Cube and look for blue text in the expanded tree. If you see it, Stop and check the first step again! This was tricky since I had to do step 1 twice. If there’s no blue, then set the Rotate Cube Left/Right button fields to Button8 and Button9 respectively.
Finally - I have all the functionality I had with Feisty/Beryl.
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November 05, 2007 @ 05:28 PM
Thanks, I had the same problem.