[solved] Compiz Standalone

[silent_Walker]

Does anyone think that they can post a tutorial to install compiz fusion as a standalone? I read a outdated version on of gentoo's wiki's but I prefer the newer compiz better.

Also is it true that compiz will be unsupported? Or will Gentoo not support it anymore?
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[hedmo]

silent_Walker

it is quite simple.here is what i have ( the main packages):

[ebuild R #] x11-wm/compiz-fusion-9999::hedmo USE="emerald unsupported -gnome -kde" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] x11-misc/pcmanfm-1.0 USE="-debug" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] lxde-base/lxpanel-0.5.10 USE="alsa -wifi" 1,300 kB
[ebuild R ] lxde-base/lxappearance-0.5.2 272 kB

compiz-fusion for the WM,pcmanfm for the desktop wall,right klick menu and the desktop wallpaper,
lxpanel for a light panel and lxappearance for mouse themes/gtk themes.

and i am using xinitrc to start it :




#!/bin/sh
exec compiz --replace --sm-disable ccp &
emerald --replace &
pcmanfm --desktop &
lxpanel


userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then







xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then







xrdb -merge "$userresources"

fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs


if [ -n "`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`" ]; then
command="`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`"
else
failsafe="yes"
fi

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/* ; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi

if [ -n "$failsafe" ]; then
twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
else
exec $command
fi

it is quite tricky to set it up from the start.i did start a terminal in xinitrc the first time i started
X because you have to set windows decorations,move windows and resize windows in ccsm to make the WM/compiz stand alone to work.


regards hedmo

[silent_Walker]

emerge compiz-fusion is giving me compile errors for the 2nd part download. First thing it download went flawlessly, Ill post what emerge said in a sec.
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[silent_Walker]

call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 85: called src_configure
environment, line 3352: called xorg-2_src_configure
environment, line 4046: called autotools-utils_src_configure
environment, line 690: called efconf '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/libXrander-1.4.0' '--enable-shared' '--disable-static'
phase-helpers.sh line, 467: called die
The specific snippet of code:
die "efconf failed"
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[hedmo]

silent_Walker

what version do you try to emerge and where from? if you want to use the latest version read this:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-923758.html

regards hedmo

[silent_Walker]

Before I was just trying to emerge from world. But now I have your ebuild and am getting a new error right after I run ebuild compiz-fusion-9999.ebuild digest

ERROR: compiz/compiz-fusion/compiz-fusion-9999.ebuild failed (depend phase)
error sourcing ebuild

call stack
ebuild.sh, line 521: Called die
The specific snippet of code
source "$EBUILD" || die "error sourcing ebuild"
This ebuild is from an overlay names 'x-portage' :'/usr/local/portage/'
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[hedmo]

[yellowhat]

Hi all,
I am using compiz standalone, it's great. All works but I have 2 problem:

1) Pcmanfm doesn't automount, on gnome and kde was working, this is my .xinitrc

[yellowhat]

This is my ck-list-sessions:

[yellowhat]

If type:

[yellowhat]

I solved the automount problem splitting .xinitrc in:

.xinitrc

[anyNiXwilldo]

[hedmo]

[yellowhat]

Thanks for reply.
I solved adding %admin ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot to visudo and adding two shortcut for reboot and halt.


Thanks

[anyNiXwilldo]

That works for any desktop that has a reboot or halt command on the menu. It's just a matter of locating the file that has the menu (which can often be found in your .config folder, or copied from /usr/share/name-of-wm to your .config folder) and adjusting it to your liking.
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[silent_Walker]

Ok, so it is about a week straight of school and finally found some free time to continue with my compiz install. Right now I just have one thing wrong and then I think it will emerge.

I get the following error from emerge -av compiz-fusion

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-main-9999" .

(dependency required by "x11-wm/compiz-fusion-9999" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "x11-wm/compiz-fusion" [argument])
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[hedmo]

[silent_Walker]

From layman -a desktop-effects I get


* Adding overlay,...
* Adding repository "desktop-effects" failed!

* CLI: Errors occured processing action add
* Adding repository "desktop-effects" failed!

Their was a post on this in the forums from last year, no idea how to fix.
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[hedmo]

silent_Walker

Sorry!forgot i had it on my git https://github.com/hedmo/hedmos-ebuilds/tree/master/x11-wm/compiz-fusion .
add it in your local overlay,digest it and emerge compiz-fusion and you should be one step forward to the goal
If you set the emerald flag to compiz-fusion you need that ebuild to and download the tar.gz file manualy.

regards hedmo

[silent_Walker]

Thanks hedmo, I got compiz-fusion and emerald to emerge and install.

Now I just get an Xorg error. I emerge xorg base server and added compiz to my ~/.xinitrc

and xorg says

Fatal error:
no screens found.
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[silent_Walker]

After being in the kernel for about an hour trying different video drivers, xorg still can not find a "screen".

I have a radeon HD 4250. My kernel settings

Device Drivers --->
Generic Driver Options --->
(/sbin/hotplug) path to uevent helper
[] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev
[ ] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs
[] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware
[] Prevent firmware from being built
-*- Userspace firmware loading support
[*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
(radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/R700_rlc.bin) External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary
(/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory
[ ] Driver Core verbose debug messages
[ ] Managed device resources verbose debug messages
Graphics support --->
<> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) --->
--- /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
<> AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support
< > Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
< > SiS chipset support
< > VIA chipset support
-*- VGA Arbitration
(2) Maximum number of GPUs
[ ] Laptop Hybrid Graphics - GPU switching support
<*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) --->
--- Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
< > 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (NEW)
< > ATI Rage 128 (NEW)
<*> ATI Radeon
[*] Enable modesetting on radeon by default - NEW DRIVER
< > Matrox g200/g400 (NEW)
< > SiS video cards (NEW)
< > Via unichrome video cards (NEW)
< > Savage video cards (NEW)
< > DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU (NEW)
< > Intel GMA500 Stub Driver
<*> Lowlevel video output switch controls
<*> Support for frame buffer devices --->
--- Support for frame buffer devices
[*] Enable firmware EDID
[ ] Framebuffer foreign endianness support --->
[*] Enable Video Mode Handling Helpers
[*] Enable Tile Blitting Support
*** Frame buffer hardware drivers ***
< > Cirrus Logic support
< > Permedia2 support
< > CyberPro 2000/2010/5000 support
< > Arc Monochrome LCD board support
[ ] Asiliant (Chips) 69000 display support
[ ] IMS Twin Turbo display support
< > VGA 16-color graphics support
< > Userspace VESA VGA graphics support
[ ] VESA VGA graphics support
< > N411 Apollo/Hecuba devkit support
< > Hercules mono graphics support
< > Epson S1D13XXX framebuffer support
< > nVidia Framebuffer Support
< > nVidia Riva support
< > Intel LE80578 (Vermilion) support
< > Matrox acceleration
< > ATI Radeon display support
< > ATI Rage128 display support
< > ATI Mach64 display support
< > S3 Trio/Virge support
< > S3 Savage support
< > SiS/XGI display support
< > VIA UniChrome (Pro) and Chrome9 display support
< > NeoMagic display support
< > IMG Kyro support
< > 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3/Voodoo5 display support
< > 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (sst1) support
< > VIA VT8623 support
< > Trident/CyberXXX/CyberBlade support
< > ARK 2000PV support
< > Permedia3 support (EXPERIMENTAL)
< > Fujitsu carmine frame buffer support
[ ] AMD Geode family framebuffer support (EXPERIMENTAL)
< > SMSC UFX6000/7000 USB Framebuffer support
< > Displaylink USB Framebuffer support
< > Virtual Frame Buffer support (ONLY FOR TESTING!)
< > E-Ink Metronome/8track controller support
< > Fujitsu MB862xx GDC support
< > E-Ink Broadsheet/Epson S1D13521 controller support
[] Backlight & LCD device support --->
--- Backlight & LCD device support
<> Lowlevel LCD controls
< > Platform LCD controls
-*- Lowlevel Backlight controls
< > Generic (aka Sharp Corgi) Backlight Driver
< > Frontpath ProGear Backlight Driver
< > Apple Backlight Driver
< > Tabletkiosk Sahara Touch-iT Backlight Driver
< > Backlight Driver for ADP8860/ADP8861/ADP8863 using WLED
< > Backlight Driver for ADP8870 using WLED
Display device support --->
<*> Display panel/monitor support
*** Display hardware drivers ***
Console display driver support --->
-*- VGA text console
[] Enable Scrollback Buffer in System RAM
(256) Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB)
-*- Framebuffer Console support
-*- Map the console to the primary display device
[ ] Framebuffer Console Rotation
[ ] Select compiled-in fonts
[] Bootup logo --->
--- Bootup logo
[ ] Standard black and white Linux logo
[ ] Standard 16-color Linux logo
[] Standard 224-color Linux logo
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[Ant P.]

Does /sys/class/drm list your monitor connection? Have you got xf86-video-ati installed? Are you using an xorg.conf? (it should work without one)

[silent_Walker]

It can find my monitor connection. And I am now installing the xf86-video-ati drivers and no xorg.conf is being used.
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[silent_Walker]

Just rebooted I get radeon 0000 :01:05:0 can't find IRQ for PCI INT B when the kernel text sprawls on the screen.
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