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sque · Post by **sque** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:17 am

try to do:

emerge nvidia-glx

and try to start X again

LL0rd · Post by **LL0rd** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:44 am

thx for you help, i allready had nvidia-glx, but the reemerge failed because of the nvidia fb support in the kernel. But my X Server still doesn't work.

When I try to test it with

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X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf

i get no error message, but my monitor shows me, that the frequency is to high.

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Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
   HorizSync    31.5 - 48.5
   VertRefresh  40.0 - 70.0

EndSection

The Monitor is TFT display. The start of XGL still fails:

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Xgl :1 -ac -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv
......
......
Fatal server error:
no visual format found

pijalu · Post by **pijalu** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:51 am

sque wrote:
pijalu wrote: Last update: http://users.skynet.be/muaddib/my-xglov ... 10.tar.bz2
Ty for the great work you are doing!

But what's the direfference of yours and hannos?
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hanno check it out he is still publishing overlays too.

Give us some info about yours.

Thx, like someone said before, the main difference is Mesa/Xgl/compiz are using snapshot of the CVS tree working on my laptop (for reference, A vaio fs-115 with a Pentium M 730 and a Nvidia GeForce Go 6200). They are based on hanno's from 20060118, but i continued it on my side when compiz went out.
This is actually to give the possibility to re-emerge things with the exact same source...eg: At one moment last week, Xgl decided to use another naming for functions and this ended with people starting to rewrite patches from the overlay... ending in a quite messy way to install Xgl for people starting to try it...

The bad part is it's a lot of work to keep updated, since I have to grab cvs, compile (check if everything go well), test, pack the CVS tree i used, prepare ebuild , recompile, retest and distribute

==> I don't plan to release new one (I just had some free time)...and I think this can be a good starter to Xgl / compiz ... So if anyone has time, they can continue this

The possible problems to upgrade to hanno's: you should always (re)emerge mesa xgl compiz since the 2 overlays can be quite differents on the patches .
(or someone knows a super CVS command to get the exact snapshot like -r 1234 of SVN ?)

irondog · Post by **irondog** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:11 am

Is there any way to use compiz in KDE? It seems totally useless for me: Compiz kills kwin and leaves KDE behind with no window manager.

I just need the wobbly effect and glxcompmgr seems to be broken (it's always missing extensions).

joolz · Post by **joolz** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:14 am

you should get a window manager, but no window decorations. works for me atleast.

irondog · Post by **irondog** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:58 am

joolz wrote:you should get a window manager, but no window decorations. works for me atleast.

Is there any way I can see the window manager? The only thing that happens is that all window decorations disappear. It's impossible to do anything with the desktop after that.

How can I move windows? How do I maximise?

reeper · Post by **reeper** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:36 pm

Hy

I have a problème with Xgl
there was no error during compil but I have no effect when i launch it
I think the probleme is with gnome-window-decorator

when i try to do :
$ gnome-window-decorator
i have :
"gnome-window-decorator, Failed to load shadow images"

when I do
$ DISPLAY=:1 gnome-window-decorator
nothing happen

If i try to emerge cairo with glitz USE :
# USE="glitz" emerge -av cairo
I have this error :
...
make[2]: *** [cairo-glitz-surface.lo] Erreur 1
...

I have also a problème when I launch Sgl :
$ Xgl :1 -ac -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
And i dont know i resolve it

I'm on amd64

Help me please

Thanks

joolz · Post by **joolz** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:45 pm

irondog wrote:
How can I move windows? How do I maximise?

i dont know how to resize without the decorations. you can move the windows by holding down the alt key and drag the windows with your mouse.

May-C · Post by **May-C** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:47 pm

@ irondog

It's not absolutly useless. You can move the window with ctrl+alt+left mouseclick.
You can resize the window with ctrl+alt+right mouseclick.
I don't use glxcompmgr i use compiz...

ljubo · Post by **ljubo** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:14 pm

I have a problem compiling compiz with +kde flag.
I am using pijalu's 20060210 overlay.

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checking for KDE_WINDOW_DECORATOR... updating cache
./configure: line 21395: $cache_file: ambiguous redirect
configure: creating ./config.status

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the following optional plugins will be compiled:
  gconf: no


the following optional plugins will be compiled:
  gconf: yes
  place: yes
  menu:  yes
  svg:   no

and the following optional features will be compiled:
  gnome: no
  kde:   no

What do I have to do to make compiz compile with KDE features?
Thanks!

Regards, Ljubo

ikke · Post by **ikke** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:31 pm

SRPM in here might contain usable patches too: http://people.redhat.com/rstrode/bling/SRPMS/

Files in there are srpm's for new Metacity, now the -spif2 branch is merged into HEAD. Some nice gl-based effects in there too, but on a "normal" X server

LL0rd · Post by **LL0rd** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:39 pm

Hi,

now I have the problem, that xorg can't find libXaw.so.8, the libXaw.so.7 exists, may I simply link to it?

@ikke
your avatar looks like the fox of the Movie Hugo, das Dschungeltier [sorry, I don't know the original title]. Nice movie! I saw it several times, then I was a child

ikke · Post by **ikke** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:51 pm

LL0rd wrote:your avatar looks like the fox of the Movie Hugo, das Dschungeltier [sorry, I don't know the original title]. Nice movie! I saw it several times, then I was a child

"Frey" from "Frank and Frey" (at least, thats their name in dutch). Long story on why it became my avatar, and none of your business

Back on topic

The_Ace · Post by **The_Ace** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:55 pm

ljubo wrote:I have a problem compiling compiz with +kde flag.
I am using pijalu's 20060210 overlay.
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checking for KDE_WINDOW_DECORATOR... updating cache
./configure: line 21395: $cache_file: ambiguous redirect
configure: creating ./config.status
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the following optional plugins will be compiled:
  gconf: no


the following optional plugins will be compiled:
  gconf: yes
  place: yes
  menu:  yes
  svg:   no

and the following optional features will be compiled:
  gnome: no
  kde:   no
What do I have to do to make compiz compile with KDE features?
Thanks!

Regards, Ljubo

From what I've understood, the kde part is disabled as there is nothing that really works there at the moment.
If someone knows a actual way of enabling these window decorations and get something useful from it, please reply to this thread.

wipet · Post by **wipet** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:03 pm

Hi, I am trying to install xgl and one of the patch is not working for x11-base/xgl-20060209. I am using the xgl-overlay-200602111 on a amd64 with a nvidia card.

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* Applying xgl-symlink-glapi.diff ...

 * Failed Patch: xgl-symlink-glapi.diff !
 *  ( /usr/local/portage/x11-base/xgl/files/xgl-symlink-glapi.diff )
 *
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 *
 *   /var/tmp/portage/xgl-20060209/temp/xgl-symlink-glapi.diff-32553.out


!!! ERROR: x11-base/xgl-20060209 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1894:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 941:   Called src_compile
  xgl-20060209.ebuild, line 36:   Called epatch 'compile'

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PATCH COMMAND:  patch -p4 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch < /usr/local/portage/x11-base/xgl/files/xgl-symlink-glapi.diff

==================================
missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- xgl-xorg/GL/symlink-mesa.sh.1      2006-01-21 02:06:26.546083000 +0100
|+++ xgl-xorg/GL/symlink-mesa.sh        2006-01-21 02:05:57.448264500 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch.  Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored

Anyone can help?

tx

zomps · Post by **zomps** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:35 pm

The_Ace wrote:
ljubo wrote:I have a problem compiling compiz with +kde flag.
I am using pijalu's 20060210 overlay.
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checking for KDE_WINDOW_DECORATOR... updating cache
./configure: line 21395: $cache_file: ambiguous redirect
configure: creating ./config.status
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the following optional plugins will be compiled:
  gconf: no


the following optional plugins will be compiled:
  gconf: yes
  place: yes
  menu:  yes
  svg:   no

and the following optional features will be compiled:
  gnome: no
  kde:   no
What do I have to do to make compiz compile with KDE features?
Thanks!

Regards, Ljubo
From what I've understood, the kde part is disabled as there is nothing that really works there at the moment.
If someone knows a actual way of enabling these window decorations and get something useful from it, please reply to this thread.

It needs Qt 4 installed

TheS4int · Post by **TheS4int** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:46 pm

first: thx pijula for your package, it compiles without errors

the part i can't change is to bring up the window decorations. my gnome-session is without borders, title bars ...
, also xsession with only one xterm under XGL. (no window decoration)
here is a picture of it: http://bytesource.de/bilder/Bildschirmfoto.png (sorry for size, no way to shrink at time)

Ive compiled cairo with USE="glitz" (with "x11-libs/cairo" in /etc/portage/package.keywords)
and package from pijula "my-xgloverlay-20060210.tar.bz2"

-XGL is for me to buggy, xv is very cpu intensive, full-screen with mplayer most impossible (3-4 time higher cpu usage than normal X)
-tvtime has damage picture output
-no logout under XGL-Gnome, sometimes damaged console fonts after CTRL+ALT+DEL (and have to delete the ~/.gnome2/session file)
...and so on

its incredibel, but too many bugs

my startscript..

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#!/bin/bash
echo ">Starting XGL at Display: $1"
echo "========= XGL ============"
Xgl :1 -ac -accel xv -accel glx:pbuffer &
sleep 3
echo "======= GNOME ==========="
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/
DISPLAY=:1 gnome-session &
sleep 5
echo "======= COMPIZ ============"
DISPLAY=:1 compiz --replace gconf switcher decoration fade wobbly minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place &
sleep 1
DISPLAY=:1 gnome-window-decorator

my Sys:
Athlon XP, nVidia FX5200, 512MB
Linux version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 (root@tv) (gcc-Version 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #1 Tue Jan 3 01:04:39 CET 2006
media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8178

mariux2 · Post by **mariux2** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:01 pm

I would say that the previous version of XGL worked better for me.
But anyways, im a kde user and i dont want to install the whole of gnome to use this thing, what are my options?
I get XGL to start but but my luck ends there, i am enable to use any of its nice features.

dmsnell · Post by **dmsnell** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:02 pm

I'm getting errors compiling the cario-1.1.1_alpha20060115...

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libtool: link: `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive

flowolf · Post by **flowolf** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:08 pm

I made a cool video: http://www.webalice.it/cimi86/gnome/xgl_gray.avi
I have another one but I don't have space to host it

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:13 pm

mariux2 wrote:But anyways, im a kde user and i dont want to install the whole of gnome to use this thing, what are my options?
I get XGL to start but but my luck ends there, i am enable to use any of its nice features.

Using KDE with gnome-window-decorator works very well for me.
Problems arise from systray. If I start eg. Kaffeine, konqueror goes foo. Workaround is to disable system tray support per application. Akregator is the only app that does not work for me.

My xglstart-skript:

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#!/bin/sh
Xgl :1 -ac -accel xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer &
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/ DISPLAY=:1  compiz --replace gconf &
DISPLAY=:1 gnome-window-decorator &
DISPLAY=:1 startkde &
xbindkeys &

I have gnome-light and gconf-editor installed though.

ravageNG · Post by **ravageNG** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:28 pm

Hello,

I was able to compile the kde-window-decorator.

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emerge qt #install QT4 
./configure --enable-kde
make #until it fails (moc problem)
cd kde/window-decorator
moc < qwmwindow.h > qwmwindow.moc
moc < qwmscreen.h > qwmscreen.moc
cd ../../
make

and have fun.

But I don't know how to use it??

Any help is very welcome

ianegg · Post by **ianegg** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:35 pm

I saw the moc error, but have no idea what a moc is!

I just did:

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cd /var/tmp/portage/compiz-0.1/work/app/compiz/kde/window-decorator
moc < qwmwindow.h > qwmwindow.moc 
moc < qwmscreen.h > qwmscreen.moc
FEATURES="keepwork" emerge compiz

And kde-window-decorator is now in my path. About to see if I can work it.

edit: Yup, doesn't work

I get a lot of this though:

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event filter in decorator
configure notify
property notify

So perhaps there isn't actually a decoration yet, just the basics? Good find ravageNG.

LL0rd · Post by **LL0rd** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:39 pm

flowolf wrote:I made a cool video: http://www.webalice.it/cimi86/gnome/xgl_gray.avi
I have another one but I don't have space to host it

Whats the system, you run xgl on? Looks quiet fast. If you want, i can host the video for you

dmsnell · Post by **dmsnell** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:57 pm

well, cairo is looking for /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.la, but that was a 0 byte file - so I copied a presumably good on ( symlink ) from /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib, but still complains about not a valid library archive

Xgl dont work

xgl-symlink-glapi.diff