First off, sorry if this is not the proper forum; this seems like equally a Fedora question as an XGL question.

First off, does anybody know of anybody making publically available, precompiled XGL/compiz packages for FC5? I've done some google searches on this and haven't turned much up other than some old (February 2006) packages for FC5 test 3.

Failing that, does anybody have some good instructions on installing XGL on Core 5? I realize that there are plenty of docs on this direct from the XGL page, but I'm interested in something that's more "distro specific". I've seen docs on this subject for Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, and Gentoo--but nothing yet for Fedora. I know I could always compile from source, but I'm paranoid about breaking my X install and/or messing with files from packages (and devel packages) that already exist on my system.

I've had a taste of XGL on Kororaa LiveCD on my laptop and I'm hooked! I just want to see if I can get it running on my already-installed FC5 installation.

Thanks

Well, Fedora works with a different technology named AIGXL that have the same functionallities that Xgl (AFAIK), but, if you want to try, there's an unofficial packages for FC5 here to get running the Xgl server


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Yeah that link was what I turned up on the Google searches, but those packages are old for something being developed so rapidly (or I imagine it is). I was thinking more along the lines of like Fedora Extras or Livna--some repo that does "bleeding edge" stuff and tends to updated their packages frequently.

Jejeje, no, you wont get any Xgl in livna or fedora extras, becuase Fedora Core is set to work using the AIGXL for the momment at least....

If you want newest packages to get running Xgl in your Fedora, visit the opensuse site and install or rebuild the rpm packages to install them


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hang on for a bit, i am going to post a short tutorial on my blog for running XGL on FC5, it took me hardly any time to get it up and running yesterday

http://starbase-12.blogspot.com/
i have the link there and some pics as well
enjoy !!

any way how to get XGL running on fc4 ?

Good job! Thanks.

was thinking of trying fc4 at 1st but i believe xgl requires the latest xorg to function properly. FC5 is equiped with just that, Xorg 7.0 while FC4 is 2 generations behing so in the end i had to upgrade.

If you do a search on fedoraforum.org you will find ways to get XGL to work on FC5. I did set it up once, but it interefred with my mythtv so I scrapped it.

just got it up and running. works like a charm although xine is kinda messed up now so im switching to mplayer.

i have more details and a pic here

THANK YOU A LOT WHISKEY MATE

Man this is the most easiest XGL configuration ever i tells ya

Here's a pic Fedora XGL,

that looks sweet mate. bahut bardia !!