XGL (Part 5)

Maedhros · Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: XGL (Part 5)

And it's time to split it again.

Welcome to XGL (Part 5), continued from XGL (Part 4).
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enzobelmont · Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject:

can i trust in revision 237???? (no lockups, memory hogs, dbus-problems, etc...)????
i like to use quinnstorm's

sorry my english... :wink:

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cwall64 · Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:

What version of gcc are most using for XGL & compiz? I wanted to move to 4.1.1 (for a x86 machine), but wanted to make sure that there were not any major problems with XGL & compiz first!
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loopx · Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject:

Same problem here, i can't emerge it
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ahnaqsh · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 9

Hey

I have a rather strange question; the gentoo box I want to get xgl running on has no internet connection. I download all the stuff from another machine with "emerge -pfv". When I want to emerge xgl, it wants to go off and download some stuff from a subversion server. Is there a way I could get that stuff from another machine so I can emerge it locally?

Would getting a kororaa live cd and then doing quickpkg xgl, and then transferring the xgl package to my machine work?

P.S: I posted this question in xgl (part4) but since it was right at the end of it, I thought I'd repost it here, is that alright?

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nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

Everyone, sorry about the missing compiz-quinnstorm tarball. My automatic upload script failed for that.. Please use compiz-quinnstorm-0.0.13.2 to fix your .13.0 dbus issue.. (The tarball is now uploaded manually)

Admiral_Trigger_Happy · Guru Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 337 Location: Australia

I've been wondering about this for awhile, why is it when I start Xgl using the startxgl script it starts but stays at the normal grey X screen for ages before starting the DM I selected (in my cases KDE).

Also has anyone had any sucess with GDM with the latest overlay?, it was working great for me with Xgl and I could start kde with it just fine, now it will start stay at the grey X screen with the watch icon the middle then it will crash and not restart X like it used to.

Any ideas?
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nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

Trigger, it's supposed to wait 2 seconds after starting XGL to start your DE (Desktop Environment). I think you need to manually configure gdm to wait longer before starting the xgl/compiz/DE.. The patch that forced it was included into the latest gdm so you can configure it instead of it being forced.

Admiral_Trigger_Happy · Guru Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 337 Location: Australia

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

What version of compiz are you using?

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linuxgeek · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 46

Hi All,

I am trying to get XGL installed. I am following the Wiki {dated May 30, 2006}

And I get stuck at the subversion section.

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Admiral_Trigger_Happy · Guru Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 337 Location: Australia

Sounds like you are going through a HTTP proxy, doesn't work through a proxy.
It may be a transparent proxy, contact your ISP or system admin, or if you have your own firewall box check to see it doesn't have a transparent proxy on
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wingrunr21 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 91

Alrighty, I've got another problem. I finally got XGL to work with Gnome. The only problem is minimize. Whenever I minimize a window it goes down to that dock thing. When I bring it back up (the only way I've figured out to do that is to right click), the window cannot be used (like if it is a terminal I can't type in the terminal). When I close the program (such as the terminal) then not only does the terminal close but so does compiz. I've got to re-run compizrc in order to get everything back up. Although this is minor, I'd sure love to be able to minimize windows. I'm also getting random lockups moving windows around.

linuxgeek · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 46

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

Vulcano23 · n00b Joined: 17 May 2004 Posts: 51

I haven't followed the Xgl development for a while (my last install was made with ebuilds dated april) and I would like a quick update on XVideo support.

Has it been implemented completely? I'd love to switch to Xgl, but I also use my pc as tv and MythTV only runs with xv or shared memory (which has terrible performance).

Thank you!

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eitan1989 · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 48 Location: USA

I've had compiz (quinnstorm) and Xgl compiling fine for quite a while, but most of the plugins seem to fail silently. There are no window decorations (while gnome-window-decorator is running), alt-tab doesn't work, water doesn't work... I can make windows transparent with alt-scroll and I can drag the cube and switch desktops. Window focusing is kinda weird, it's unpredictable when it will focus in the window when I click and when it will try to move the window instead (wobbly moving does work).
Any ideas, anyone?

Admiral_Trigger_Happy · Guru Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 337 Location: Australia

I'm getting some screen drawing issues with compiz-quinnstorm-9999

Certain apps, azureus, firefox and even konqueror don't redraw properly now, this only started happening recently, I have reemerged compiz but I think the bug hasn't been fixed yet.

The problem appears mostly after minimising and then restoring, also moving.
I will disable a couple of the plugins that are related and report of my success, but for now its not working.

EDIT: I think I found the problem, I think it was the neg plugin, I forgot it was enabled, as it wasn't doing anything at all, except possibly causing me screen redraw issues.
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Dumbkiwi · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 45

I've just got a quick question about kdelibs on the CoffeeBuzz overlay. Portage wants to upgrade kdelibs to 3.5.3. Previously, the overlay has had a patched version of kdelibs in the overlay. The only version of kdelibs in the overlay at the moment is 3.5.2-r6. Does anyone know if kdelibs 3.5.3 requires patching for xgl? or when a patched version of kdelibs might be available?
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