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[–] Twitches@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago (8 children)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5oBSlNNTPRc

Sorry for the straight link, but, this is the cube. The cube is pretty cool

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

That's been around for a while hasn't it?

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Depends on what you mean by "a while". The cube is known since a decade, but was lost to old tech based on compiz. Since then some people tried to bring it back on the newer desktop environments through extensions and a new implementation of the idea. I think someone wrote an extension for GNOME before. The version on KDE is independent from that and different.

[–] arviceblot@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago

compiz and emerald, wow I was not expecting to unlock that memory tonight!

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