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This is just a quick how to for getting compiz working with a nvidia card and kde on slackware current.It is not meant to be an exhaustive how to and it maybe totally wrong but works for me.
Install the nvidia driver if you have not yet done so.
Quote:
sh NVIDIA-xxx.run --x-prefix=/usr --x-module-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules
Edit your xorg.conf and add the following lines.
In section device.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
>--add these lines--<
The list after compiz --replace is a list of plugins to load edit it to your liking there are more.
NOTE: If you can't run the kde-window-decorator --replace command.
Make sure you are using compiz-0.3.6-i486-2.tgz or higher the first build of it did not have kde-window-decorator.
You may see and error like this but don't worry about it.
compiz: Failed to load slide: freedesktop <-- this error is not critical
EDIT: Thanks erklaerbaer
If it works then you can have it auto load when kde starts by creating a script and adding it to ~/.kde
Make sure you make it executable chmod +x startcompiz.sh
And now make a second script in ~/.kde/env named compizwm.sh mkdir ~/.kde/env if you do not have a ~/.kde/env directory
you know what? i _just_ screwed up my slackware 11 install (prior to reading this--not your fault!)
ive become very disappointed at the visual performance (crashes) and appearance (choppy) of kde. i found out just yesterday that compiz is included in slackware-current. so i installed slapt-get (and using -current repo.), ran 'slapt-get --update' and 'slapt-get --upgrade' and it screwed up the install, due to dependencies for gcc.
i did a fresh reinstall and after 'slapt-get --update' i just installed compiz via 'slapt-get --install compiz', couldnt get it to work.
ive read it needs the newer Xorg 7.1+, so i tried to install all xorg packages from 'slapt-get --search xorg' then X broke!
as you have it working, did you upgrade _everything_ to -current? i assume this would work with slackware 11, as long as compiz is installed, nvidia driver is installed, and the appropriate Xorg version is installed. do you have the X-server stuff from -current as well?
You cant mix and match slackware -11.0 and -current packages due to new gcc, glibc, and a ton of others and X11 and kde changing paths, current is all or nothing right now.
yes im not very familiar with following instructions that long! but i will try and follow it so i can enjoy compiz.
thanks for your time and ill try and update before the weekend.
Does anyone know how to configure compiz? Looks like it has no any other way except gconf2 (which installation on slack is somehow tricky and useless except for this kind of things). I read that there is a new plugin called "ini" which allows compiz configuration through a flat-file, but can't seem to find it. Anyone?
Hey XGizzmo thanks for the great walk through, one question though. Compiz is working although I loose all my window borders, I'm suspecting it has something to do with the kde-window-decorator portion of the command. I did a clean install and a full one. What package did you install for this prob?
Hey XGizzmo thanks for the great walk through, one question though. Compiz is working although I loose all my window borders, I'm suspecting it has something to do with the kde-window-decorator portion of the command. I did a clean install and a full one. What package did you install for this prob?
Make sure you are using compiz-0.3.6-i486-2.tgz the first build of it did not have kde-window-decorator.
If it works then you can have it auto load when kde starts by creating a startup script and adding it to ~/.kde/Autostart
better: make a small script,that starts compiz and kde-window-decorator and make a file "set-compiz-as-windowmanager.sh" in $HOME/.kde/env/ with this content:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
KDEWM=$$HOME/bin/mysript
export KDEWM
have a look at the startkde script, if you want to know why
Hi, i think that i'm on the good post because you'll all seems to be very good with Nvidia !
So this is my trouble :
I've a laptop with nvidia 6800 i install the last nvidia out of X the 9755 ... the installation works well
after i start X ... the Nvidia screeshot appear and the kde appear on 1440x900 (the good screen definition)
after i want to restart ... and at this time ... my screen burn in white & black ... the computer restart well
like nothing appen and i start again X ... all thing right but just to see if i had a bad dream i restart again and, again, my
screen seems to burn in black & white at the moment of X fall down just before the computer restart !
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