Introduction

What is Compiz Fusion? Compiz Fusion is a compositing window manager. What does that mean? Previously, each program you run draws graphics directly onto the screen within its own window. Compositing puts a layer in between programs and the screen, changing the flow from programs, to the intermediate buffer, to the screen. What this allows for is that graphics from a running program can be manipulated before being drawn in various 2D and 3D ways, like this:

Different Background Images for each Cube Surface

This has been bugging us at SoSLUG for some time well ok then, me. In compizconfig-settings-manager >> Desktop Cube if you set your number of desktop surfaces to four (4) this gives you your basic cube and quite naturally you would assume given that you can define each of the chosen images for each face, that each desktop image would display the selected image you have chosen. You would think that wouldn't you I know I did.