compiz in official portage tree

[dleverton]

[ph03n1x]

[roderick]

[1ino1eum_4the_win]

hi guys !
I made a big mistake :
my compiz worked very well. But I dont know why, I wanted to reset all the setting about compiz.
So I did what I used to do when I was using compiz from the xgl overlay :

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz
gconftool-2 --install-schema-file /etc/gconf/schemas/compiz.schemas

that was a big mistake because now my compiz doesn't work anymore

I simply have no effect, and no more windows decoration.

Do you know a way to fix it?
please helllp me :p

[Havin_it]

Have you emerged the newest compiz-0.3.2? It's the first one that includes the schema for gwd (gtk-window-decorator) as well as for compiz itself.

[1ino1eum_4the_win]

yes I did emerge the last compiz from portage.
But it worked great , until a did
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz
gconftool-2 --install-schema-file /etc/gconf/schemas/compiz.schemas

to try to reset all the setting, to see if there was new setting by default. but now it doen't work anymore

I need to know why it doens't work anymore since I did that

[1ino1eum_4the_win]

ok, here is the output of /var/log/message , when I lauch gnome and when compiz should be load .
sorry it's in french

Nov 3 03:14:41 punkcpu (linoleum-8547): Adresse « xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory » résolue vers une source de configuration en lecture seule à la position 0
Nov 3 03:14:41 punkcpu (linoleum-8547): Adresse « xml:readwrite:/home/linoleum/.gconf » résolue vers une source de configuration accessible en écriture à la position 1
Nov 3 03:14:41 punkcpu (linoleum-8547): Adresse « xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults » résolue vers une source de configuration en lecture seule à la position 2
Nov 3 03:14:56 punkcpu UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'DVDVolume', timestamp 2036/02/07 02:58 (103c)
Nov 3 03:14:57 punkcpu (linoleum-8547): Adresse « xml:readwrite:/home/linoleum/.gconf » résolue vers une source de configuration accessible en écriture à la position 0

so , it's problem about readonly?

[neuron]

I'm having some problems.. on an nvidia card, when I run compiz and a 3d application at the same time, it doesn't slow down the fps. But it runs smooth, then stops a bit, then smooth, then stops.

I'm on smp, I was hoping the little extra load from compiz would be offloaded on another cpu, which it seems to do, it's just those tiny stops (which happen pretty much constantly) which makes it useless for me atm :/

[Dan]

1ino1eum_4the_win

check in the menu SYSTEM/CONFIGURATION EDITOR
apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options -->active_plugins make sure they are all there.
I had the same trouble ... and
gconftool-2 --install-schema-file /etc/gconf/schemas/compiz.schemas
wasnt putting them there..
neither did..
# export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE="xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults"
# gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/compiz.schemas
or ..
gconftool-2 -s /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins "[gconf,decoration,wobbly,fade,minimize,cube,switcher,move,resize,place,rotate,zoom,scale]" -t list --list-type=string

dont have any idea why... but when i added all the plugins through the gui menu manually compiz was back working.

[Havin_it]

[agnitio]

I'm having problems running compiz from portage. I installed the xeffects overlay and then updated mesa, then installed xgl and compiz.
Now when I start compiz I get:

[1ino1eum_4the_win]

[nesl247]

The compiz-* scripts are screwed up in the fashion of plugins anyways. If I recall correctly, as soon as compiz reads the gconf plugin, it ignores the rest of the plugin list in the command. So gconf needs to be setup or it won't work.

[Dan]

Great Im glad you got it worked out..

[Ricky]

The latest version of compiz still hard locks my system. Does anyone have any ideas? :-/

[Havin_it]

[Ricky]

[Havin_it]

So it works only if you have them in that exact sequence? Well, stick with it

BTW, I trust you read nesl247's post 2 above your first post, about the gconf plugin / redundancy of putting anything after it on the commandline, so I assume the sequence you list above is what's in gconf-editor?

[Ricky]

Well, it doesn't exactly works. It crashes X rather than hard locking my whole machine. An improvement, no doubt, but not quite working yet...

Yes, those are my gconf values. I also tried switching X from 24 bpp to 16 bpp. No apparent affect.

[Havin_it]

Just updated to compiz-0.3.6 and found it so rickety I had to go back to 0.3.4. Main probs:

1) kde-window-decorator always segfaults on logout
2) I still need to add "unset XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS" to startup script to enable window decoration
3) Some severe artifacts in Firefox
4) Effects are quite jerky on first use, e.g. rotate doesn't actually show the rotation, just jumps from one desktop to the next.

I expect a good part of this is related to using the new kde-window-decorator though. It's good to see an initial release of this anyhoo, and looking forward to it becoming more refined.

There's also a compiz-settings app released, which is basically a frontend for the gconf settings. I can't say too much about this except it seems to work, but has no Quit function! (That's interesting when you've no window-deco.)

Anyone else on the planet still using the vanilla compiz? If so, I would like to hear some experiences with the new release, esp. with kde-window-decorator.

[Gusar]

I use compiz-git (ebuild here), and I use kde-window-decorator. Everything works great here. Do you have dbus-qt3-old installed? The k-w-d needs it.

The effect jerkiness you experience is maybe because compiz now uses strict bindings. Try starting compiz with loose bindings:

[dleverton]

[Havin_it]

[dleverton]

[Lloeki]

Tried compiz-3.6 today, and have a weird issue:
each time I start compiz, one plugin (the first one after gconf) is removed from configuration.

say, before I start compiz, I set: