[SOLVED] compiz titlebar on slackware 14.0

dumdadum · 11-10-2013, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

What is the output of

Code:

glxinfo|grep OpenGL

?

Code:

OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 8.0.4
OpenGL extensions:

Is this output good or not? Cause when I compile GLUT with its dependancies it says OpenGL isnt installed... I installed PyOpenGL. Is this ok? Will it solve my problem?

Thanks,
Dumdadum

andrewthomas · 11-10-2013, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by dumdadum

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. I installed PyOpenGL. Is this ok? Will it solve my problem?

Thanks,
Dumdadum

No,it won't. I am also unfamiliar with Intel graphics cards.

grothen · 11-10-2013, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Nh3xus

Thanks for the feedback.

I've seen the commit in the github repos.

Since I'm a -current user, I think it's just a matter of time before Pat ships it.

Of course building it is an option too.

I just lost hope in a bug fix for that since this bug was well known and never got really fixed.

In previous versions of xfwm4 you were able to enable the vsync option manually with the settings editor of Xfce.

But I had no joy on my laptop.

I guess I will give it a run on another box because I like compton and I don't plan to get rid of it now.

4.11 is a development release, it will hit current?

dumdadum · 11-11-2013, 07:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

No,it won't. I am also unfamiliar with Intel graphics cards.

I reinstalled my whole setup cause I had tried installing nVidia drivers and it didnt do exactly what I wanted. I installed PYOpenGL with the Glut extra alongside with the perlOpenGL stuff. In other words, everything that talks about OpenGL on slackbuilds.org was installed... Then I reinstalled Compiz with Emerald and everything works great. The cube works, alongside with the titlebars that are present, the window moves when I use the mouse to move it...

Thanks for the help about letting me know that OpenGL had to be installed, I owe you one...

Cheers (=
Dumdadum

dumdadum · 11-11-2013, 10:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nh3xus

Thanks for the feedback.

I've seen the commit in the github repos.

Since I'm a -current user, I think it's just a matter of time before Pat ships it.

Of course building it is an option too.

I just lost hope in a bug fix for that since this bug was well known and never got really fixed.

In previous versions of xfwm4 you were able to enable the vsync option manually with the settings editor of Xfce.

But I had no joy on my laptop.

I guess I will give it a run on another box because I like compton and I don't plan to get rid of it now.

Compiz is really what I wanted to work, and it does. I didnt find anything about compton on slackbuilds.org and xfwm4 is also another workaround, but Emerald really does the job well.

How come you dont use Emerald?

Cheers,
Dumdadum

Nh3xus · 11-11-2013, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dumdadum

Compiz is really what I wanted to work, and it does. I didnt find anything about compton on slackbuilds.org and xfwm4 is also another workaround, but Emerald really does the job well.

How come you dont use Emerald?

Cheers,
Dumdadum

Like I said a few posts above, I don't use Compiz because it's not maintained anymore.

Even if you don't encounter any breakage at the moment, it might happen in the future.

Furthermore, the Compiz version available on SBo is the 0.8.x one, which is outdated.

This is the last release that is compatible with DE's like Xfce.

The new 0.9 branch has been heavily re-written and caused a lot of breakage with pretty much everything.

That's the branch used by Canonical for its awful Unity interface. So this explains quite a lot of things

Plus, on my machine, I wanted to get rid of the screen tearing without doing any compromise regarding the compositing.

Compiz didn't do the trick on my laptop, and I can't stand watching stuff like movies in those conditions.

Xfwm4 shipped with Xfce is NOT (afaik) based on OpenGL. So I had to find an OpenGL based compositor.

And then I came across the reddit page I just linked above.

The only "downside" with compton is that I miss the Compiz "exposé" feature.

Other than that, compton satisfies me.

dumdadum · 11-11-2013, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nh3xus

Like I said a few posts above, I don't use Compiz because it's not maintained anymore.

Even if you don't encounter any breakage at the moment, it might happen in the future.

Furthermore, the Compiz version available on SBo is the 0.8.x one, which is outdated.

This is the last release that is compatible with DE's like Xfce.

The new 0.9 branch has been heavily re-written and caused a lot of breakage with pretty much everything.

That's the branch used by Canonical for its awful Unity interface. So this explains quite a lot of things

Plus, on my machine, I wanted to get rid of the screen tearing without doing any compromise regarding the compositing.

Compiz didn't do the trick on my laptop, and I can't stand watching stuff like movies in those conditions.

Xfwm4 shipped with Xfce is NOT (afaik) based on OpenGL. So I had to find an OpenGL based compositor.

And then I came across the reddit page I just linked above.

The only "downside" with compton is that I miss the Compiz "exposé" feature.

Other than that, compton satisfies me.

LOL
Ok (=
10/4
Dumdadum

grothen · 11-11-2013, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nh3xus

Like I said a few posts above, I don't use Compiz because it's not maintained anymore.

Even if you don't encounter any breakage at the moment, it might happen in the future.

Furthermore, the Compiz version available on SBo is the 0.8.x one, which is outdated.

This is the last release that is compatible with DE's like Xfce.

The new 0.9 branch has been heavily re-written and caused a lot of breakage with pretty much everything.

That's the branch used by Canonical for its awful Unity interface. So this explains quite a lot of things

Plus, on my machine, I wanted to get rid of the screen tearing without doing any compromise regarding the compositing.

Compiz didn't do the trick on my laptop, and I can't stand watching stuff like movies in those conditions.

Xfwm4 shipped with Xfce is NOT (afaik) based on OpenGL. So I had to find an OpenGL based compositor.

And then I came across the reddit page I just linked above.

The only "downside" with compton is that I miss the Compiz "exposé" feature.

Other than that, compton satisfies me.

you can try https://code.google.com/p/skippy-xd/ allows to navigate with vim keys

dumdadum · 11-12-2013, 07:16 AM

So to mark this one solved, all you need to do is install OpenGL and then Compiz. All available at slackbuilds.org.

Thanks to everyone who helped,
Dumdadum