compiz-fusion features vis a vis Beryl

mdl313 · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 63 Location: New York

I recently switched from Beryl to Compiz-Fusion (0.5.2). There were two features in Beryl that I liked but can't find in C-F despite a lot of searching:
1) 3-D Windows effect with variable spacing between the windows
2) Ability to rotate the cube and keep it in place with Ctrl-Alt-Button2 until released by Button 2
Anybody know if these are available with Compiz-Fusion? If so, how/where to enable?
Thanks in advance for any help.

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 942 Location: we the north

control-alt-button1 seems to grab the cube.

mdl313 · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 63 Location: New York

Yes (same with Beryl) but the cube snaps back after releasing Button 1. Beryl additionally offered the ability to rotate the cube to a fixed position. I was looking for that in C-F.

mrpringle · Apprentice Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 284

is there any reason you switched from beryl (just out of curiosity). I have never tried anything else besides beryl because it has never crashed and seems to just work without too much trouble.

jonnevers · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:29 am Post subject:

mdl313 · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 63 Location: New York

Because of reports that Beryl has been merged with Compiz, but mainly because of some stability problems I had with it (occasional black window screens I couldn't fix). If it weren't for those issues, I would have stayed with Beryl.

mrpringle · Apprentice Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 284

i don't understand this layman and overlay stuff. What is it for? I never saw it when I was using beryl.

slackline · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject:

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 942 Location: we the north

slackline · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject:

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 942 Location: we the north

don't know what to say, I don't have the xeffects overlay installed

slackline · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject:

Ahh well, you see there is a difference between compiz and compiz-fusion. Thus there is no confusion at all, just different packages

Whilst the version is the same (0.5.2) you are using compiz, whilst the alternative is to use compiz-fusion which as I understand "fuses" compiz and beryl into one.

Gusar · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject:

@juniper: You only have compiz core. Compiz-fusion consists of addons for the core and is split into many packages: compiz-fusion-plugins-main, compiz-fusion-plugins-extra, libcompizconfig, ccsm (compizconfig settings manager), emerald, some other packages. All these packages have the same version as compiz core, currently it's 0.5.2. They are not yet in portage, only in the xeffects overlay.

mdl313 · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 63 Location: New York

fusion-icon-9999 is also available, but as of yesterday (22Aug) it was still masked by missing keyword. This posting has details:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-577261-highlight-fusionicon.html. Bit of a pain when I emerged it, as it had two dependencies that had to be unmasked, too. The section on "Using fusion-icon instead of compiz-manager" in the HOWTO compiz-fusion Wiki had helpful tips on using it (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_compiz-fusion).

jonnevers · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject:

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 942 Location: we the north

what's the difference between compiz fusion 0.5.2 and compiz 0.5.2?

mark_alec · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:00 am Post subject:

Moved from Desktop Environments to Unsupported Software. Compiz-fusion isn't in the tree yet.
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juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 942 Location: we the north

slackline · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject:

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Gusar · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject:

jonnevers · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: