Modify your aspire one desktop, and more!

[shellnmize]

Wow, does it seriously have to be this much of a pain in the ass? :/ I'm so thankful for the help but seriously, just wow.

[heatherknight97]

What do you have to click on to get it so that all your sreens are on a cube? and get to turn the screens around , if that makes sense. And also so that you can see all the screens so it is in a cirlce type thing. BTW i am only asking all this as i am new to all this, so would be great if you ould help.

[castelsylv]

@heatherknight97

follow the steps written benteh my video.

once this is done right click on desktop and go to compiz settings -activate the effects and you can also mess with fn ctrl & right, left down up.. and for cube use the mouse.

good luck - it's quite easy just go step by step in my instructions

[sashasquashi]

ok how did you change the colour of your 4 panels

[VanguardDragon]

Looks like you have the ZG5, am i right? It's identical to mine at least.

[xavior32]

is it compatible in Windows XP too?

[MagicMushroom89]

@xavior32 NOOOO only for linux linpus

[d123a123n]

surely that wastes tons of ram?

[castelsylv]

i have 1.5 GB of ram, and the whole system takes about 300 Mb.

I never experienced lag. and these features are really helpful to do research on the web, writing a text and consulting an other one at the same time. i will try to monitor the ram usage. but linux don't use much ram at all.

[castelsylv]

yes you should be able, if you have any questions just post :P

[scott2kaii9]

Do u know how to fix in the built in webcamm8??? plz help me ! plz

[ComputerGuy2010]

I got a question. where did you get the linux drivers from?

[castelsylv]

i bought this comp about 10 months ago, acer used to sell a version with linux called linpus lite. you can probably search a place to download the linux that used to come with the aspire one. the drivers for sound usb,etc comes in the linpus lite package. check out my other linux vids :)

[artistfood]

Wow you got amazing graphic with that. I tried these at bestbuy and found them too be too slow to watch youtube. But then again I was on windows. I wonder if watch youtube on any os would make any difference

[castelsylv]

the computer is really good, just change the tiny windows for a good version of windows, and youtube videos will play nicely. also this linux version is really fast at loading web data, and youtube vids...

[CarvajalJr]

maravilloso

muy buen trabajo con tu laptop

disculpa como haces los 4 menus de fondo del escritorio transparentes ?

Gracias

[castelsylv]

just press alt+f2, type in compiz-manager, and your compiz and emerald theme start automatically

[Lenswide]

thanks!but can this thing start at startup??

[castelsylv]

i didnt do any research on that but there is probably some way to start it at login. go search on : aspire one user forum. (google it and sign in to search the website).

but i saw that compiz , seem to slow a bit my video chat transfers with skype, that's the only reason i dont put it at start ups, also it's not suggested to start it when you opent VIRTUAL BOX, wich i use to run windows XP from the linux environment. - go search for it with macles on google. : )!

[Lenswide]

ok. one more question please. how did you make the cube 3d?

[castelsylv]

you press ctrl+alt and then click the mouse and move the mouse, you can also press : ctrl+alt+ left or right arrows ;D

[castelsylv]

yes all the themes are very easy to install : )

make shure you install all your system updates first.

go to settings, click the live update icon !

[Lenswide]

thanks a lot!! i've already changed the backround, installed the firefox3 and i want to aply the compiz kai emerald ..

will it be easy . i am newbie :)

[castelsylv]

it's compiz

[castelsylv]

and emerald, already installed : )

[Hoobes1]

is that emerald and compiz that you're using? cause i didn't know that it was available for linpus ^^

[nonimage]

Hi

Thanks a lot for linking to my modified desktop. Some really nifty effects you've got going on there.

[castelsylv]

hey, thanks for all comments guys, nice switch redrop, hope you like the speed of linux,you guys can also have a look at virtual box, its a windows environment, in linux, for our acers. i didnt do much with wine ;S

[nikiforos6]

wow i am gonna try that!!!!

[castelsylv]

nice : )

[TheRedDrop]

I installed Linpus, enabled advanced mode, changed the wallpaper, enabled compiz, created a button to switch between normal linpus desktop and acer style linpus, installed VLC media player, Tux paint and firefox 3... awesome!! :-)

[castelsylv]

click the more info tab on the topright of this page to have details on how to get this effects and more

[castelsylv]

1)YOU MUST activate the advance mode

here is a link to the first ten tweaks to do ;D

[Crazyk4011]

Where's the link?

[castelsylv]

the link is in the top right of this page, you must click more info... hope this helps

[romanuverde]

Nice post. Looks and handles verry good. I intend to buy an AAO this christmas and I'd love to have cube on my too. I'm not used with Linux interface. Could u post some details on how can I get and install this cube on Linpus that come with AAO, please?

Thanks in advance!

[castelsylv]

Thanks for posting comments, would also be cool for leaving a page ranking!

[TheRedDrop]

Cool! I like the cube thing! I'd love to move to Linpus but somehow Vista is holding me back. ehh..