I have gotten the animation plugin to work properly by including it in my compiz start command, but not through the ini backend. Right now I'm using a hybrid between the ini backend and just specifying plugins.
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compiz --ignore-desktop-hints --replace decoration animation ini & Code:
ini,png,wobbly,fade,cube,move,place,resize,rotate,scale,switcher,water,zoom,screenshot All in all compiz has provided a frustrating experience just for a little eye-candy. I really hope they can create a better configuration method without having to use gconf (or alternatively create some documentation for using the ini backend with various plugins). |
Beryl settings menager problem !!!???
I have problem to start Beryl settings manager.When I start manager in konsole I got this :
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compiz (core) - Fatal: No sync extension
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Am running an ATI 9600 that doesn't "officially" support "Composite". I downloaded, compiled and installed as per your excellent posting and the above error message is what I got: compiz (core) - Fatal: No sync extension I have no idea what to do with it! Thanks - Perry ps. Code:
All laws are simulations of reality. Code:
Section "Extensions" |
cplusplus.org/slackware/compiz
Anybody interested in compiz-0.5.2 already compiled and packaged can check out my website:
/cplusplus.org/slackware/compiz to install these packages, download and run the following script in root: Code:
installpkg libcompizconfig-0.5.2-i386-1.tgz Thanks - Perry ps. these packages where assembled using mcheckinstall -S Code:
checkinstall --fstrans=no $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 |
How do you activate Beryl?
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True, I could RTFM on it... but you know me! Thanks - Perry |
Unless you're already running gnome you probably shouldn't install the gconf backend (otherwise you have to install gconf which is overkill just for compiz). That being said, if you didn't specifically disable gconf support when compiling compiz, you actually would need to install gconf (I think). I installed compiz-0.5.2 from source without installing gconf and it is working fine (I used my own slackbuilds), so I know it can be done.
I'm not trying to discourage perry's effort (It's great) -- just providing a warning for those not using dropline/another gnome package. |
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What's the world coming to? Slackers going in for eye candy! You'll all be buying Vista next!
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brianL, yeah, it's pretty pathetic. I'll probably uninstall compiz at some point once I get sick of it, but it's still nifty for now (luckily removing compiz is a snap since I used SlackBuilds).
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So no, we won't be buying Vista next. . .:tisk: :cool: :D |
I've temporarily stopped using compiz because of problems with gtk apps in KDE (half the time opening GTK apps would cause kde-window-decorator to crash removing my titlebars). I'm not sure if this has to do with compiz or the gtk-qt-engine that I also installed (to make my GTK apps match the rest of my apps), but it seems to have stopped crashing without compiz. More testing is needed though.
I may just end up waiting until compiz becomes more stable (although I must admit that I miss some of the plugins, especially pertaining to shortcut keys/app switching etc.). |
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It doesn't launch automatically if that's what you mean. . . To run it you do: Code:
compiz --ignore-desktop-hints --replace ccp & Code:
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kde-window-decorator --replace I think. And as for if your card can handle it. . . what do you have? I've got a GeForce FX 5500 (with 256MB RAM) and that handles it pretty well. It's not a real old card, but it's definitely not new - I've had it probably 2-3 years ago. |
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There is no gnome window decorator, the pendant is called gtk-window-decorator and works with either gnome and xfce.
And I got Compiz-Fusion with the GSlacky-Gnome running. I didn't even compile stuff; I just fetched the compiz-fusion packages from slacky.eu, configured my ATI card and started the stuff and that was all. |
Quick question here!!!
Does anybody know what else to do to add twinview support, i get all the cool stuff but the desktop is spanned half way through the second screen, and the start of one of the sides of the cube starts at the rightest side of the second screen. I read about xinerama, that has to disabled, but looked it up in xorg.conf and i didn't see xinerama anywhere. Thanks for the help. |
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