XGL

[smcallis182]

OK, I've ALMOST got this working, I just need gnome-window-decorator so I can actually move stuff around. I emerged gnome-session and control-center and have the gnome USE flag set, but compiz is still refusing to build it. What else do I need to do to get it compiled?

[duby2291]

Hi folks,

I cant uplaod a screenshot becouse my ftp is down for the next couple of days... sorry....

The problem that I'mhaving is that when I start xgl it does not render the window borders. No title bar or anything. Anybody else have this problem?

Here is the ouput from the terminal if it helps....

>Starting XGL at Display:
========= XGL ============
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/xgl-test:1
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
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!
======= GNOME ===========

(gnome-session:9942): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
SESSION_MANAGER=local/xgl-test:/tmp/.ICE-unix/9942

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not caclulate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not calculate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not get _NET_WORKAREA

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not determine workarea, guessing at layout
evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Setting timeout for 17522 1139702400 1139684878
evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Sat Feb 11 19:00:00 2006

evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Sat Feb 11 14:07:58 2006

evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Loading file:///root/.evolution/calendar/local/system
evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Loading contacts:///
evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Loading file:///root/.evolution/tasks/local/system
evolution-alarm-notify-Message: alarm-notify.c:176: Could not get the list of sources to load
evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Loading alarms for today
evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Loading alarms for today
evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Loading alarms for today
Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/evolution.desktop for panel launcher: Error reading file '/usr/share/applications/evolution.desktop': File not found
======= COMPIZ ============

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not caclulate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not calculate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not get _NET_WORKAREA

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not determine workarea, guessing at layout

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not caclulate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not calculate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not get _NET_WORKAREA

** (nautilus:9950): WARNING **: Can not determine workarea, guessing at layout

** (gnome-session:9942): WARNING **: Failed to authenticate with GDM

** (gnome-session:9942): WARNING **: Failed to authenticate with GDM
/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 337: xdpyinfo: command not found
/usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to find a running server.
No running windows found

[tchak]

Hi
Got it working vith latest ati propretary drivers
2 annoing stuf:
- I have a problem with DBus session daimon.... So many gnome apps complin (epiphany)
- Only US key layout....

[brenden]

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

I just put it at http://bdiddy.rty.ca/xgl_gray.avi

If you want me to host another just give me the word

[flowolf]

If you want me to host another just give me the word

You have a PM.

[ferg]

Hi
Got it working vith latest ati propretary drivers
2 annoing stuf:
- I have a problem with DBus session daimon.... So many gnome apps complin (epiphany)
- Only US key layout....

Ah right, THATs why all my keys have changed!

I spend so much time with badly configured Linux boxes at work, that when the wrong characters started appearing I just compensated automagically!!!

I've also got it working with the ATI drivers. It's looks pretty good. The only downside for me is that for some reason the Mono-Beagle daemon starts consuming 100% CPU. I've not investigated enough to prove it's Xgl, but it only started misbehaving when I ran it for the first time!

Cheers
Ferg

[flowolf]

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

brenden is going to host my videos.
This is my system:

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nibiru ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 31
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 1809.303
cache size      : 512 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow lahf_lm
bogomips        : 3622.43
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp

nibiru ~ # lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
01:07.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 0a)
01:09.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)
nibiru ~ # emerge info
Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en it"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/main /usr/local/overlays/lila /usr/local/overlays/crossdev /usr/local/overlays/xgl"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib alsa amuled aotuv asf avahi avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bonjour boo bzip2 cairo canvas cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi chm crypt cups curl daap dba dbus devil directfb djvu dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode examples fam fame fastcgi fat fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran fping gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glade glitz glut gnome gpm grammar gstreamer gstreamer010 gtk gtk2 gtkhtml gvim h323 hal howl httpd icq imagemagick imlib ipod ipv6 jabber javascript jikes joystick jpeg kdeenablefinal libcaca live lzw lzw-tiff mad math matroska mbox mhash mjpeg mng mono moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer musepack musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses network new-login nls nntp nodrm nowin nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl php player png postgres ppds python quicktime rar readline real reiserfs remote ruby samba scanner sdl server session silc speex spreadsheet sql sqlite sqlite3 ssl stats stencil-buffer stream subp subtitles subversion svg symlink sysfs tagwriting tcpd theora thesaurus threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vim-pager visualization vlm vorbis webservices wxwindows x264 xcomposite xerces-c xine xinerama xml xml2 xpm xscreensaver xv xvid yp zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_it userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LDFLAGS

[BlackEdder]

OK, I've ALMOST got this working, I just need gnome-window-decorator so I can actually move stuff around. I emerged gnome-session and control-center and have the gnome USE flag set, but compiz is still refusing to build it. What else do I need to do to get it compiled?

You probably also need libwnck (at least that was the problem for me)

[smcallis182]

OK, I've ALMOST got this working, I just need gnome-window-decorator so I can actually move stuff around. I emerged gnome-session and control-center and have the gnome USE flag set, but compiz is still refusing to build it. What else do I need to do to get it compiled?

You probably also need libwnck (at least that was the problem for me)

Yeah I'm emerging gnome right now and somewhere along the way I got compiz to finally compile gnome-window-decorator. But when I started Xgl, then compiz, then gnome-window-decorator, it didn't do a whole lot, my window decorations still didn't show up and I could move anything, my key bindings are still screwed up.

At any rate, let me just ask if it's NECESSARY to have gnome installed to get a working xgl environment? I'd like to continue using fvwm2, but that doesn't seem to be working real well...

[duby2291]

It seems like everyone is having better luck with the ATI drivers....

Is this correct? If so I think I'll try again on another ystem that has an ATI radeon 9800 pro

[tchak]

OK, I've ALMOST got this working, I just need gnome-window-decorator so I can actually move stuff around. I emerged gnome-session and control-center and have the gnome USE flag set, but compiz is still refusing to build it. What else do I need to do to get it compiled?

You probably also need libwnck (at least that was the problem for me)

Yeah I'm emerging gnome right now and somewhere along the way I got compiz to finally compile gnome-window-decorator. But when I started Xgl, then compiz, then gnome-window-decorator, it didn't do a whole lot, my window decorations still didn't show up and I could move anything, my key bindings are still screwed up.

At any rate, let me just ask if it's NECESSARY to have gnome installed to get a working xgl environment? I'd like to continue using fvwm2, but that doesn't seem to be working real well...

If you vant all the cool effects I think for the moment you have to use compiz => GNOME

Any one else have issues with DBus?

Another issue : compiz segfault with "wobbly"

[brenden]

videos from flowolf are at:

http://bdiddy.rty.ca/xgl_glxcompmgr_01.avi
http://bdiddy.rty.ca/xgl_glxcompmgr_02.avi

[maw]

OK, I've ALMOST got this working, I just need gnome-window-decorator so I can actually move stuff around. I emerged gnome-session and control-center and have the gnome USE flag set, but compiz is still refusing to build it. What else do I need to do to get it compiled?

You probably also need libwnck (at least that was the problem for me)

Yeah I'm emerging gnome right now and somewhere along the way I got compiz to finally compile gnome-window-decorator. But when I started Xgl, then compiz, then gnome-window-decorator, it didn't do a whole lot, my window decorations still didn't show up and I could move anything, my key bindings are still screwed up.

At any rate, let me just ask if it's NECESSARY to have gnome installed to get a working xgl environment? I'd like to continue using fvwm2, but that doesn't seem to be working real well...

Bear in mind that at the moment, Xgl and Compiz were developed primary by a Novell employee. Novell use GNOME, therefore their priority has been to make it blend well into a GNOME environment. I'm sure full KDE support won't be long in coming, as it doesn't look hugely difficult to write a window decorator that at least works even if it's not hugely pretty at the moment. There's plenty of time after all, Xgl itself is only barely on the usable side.

As for why you might not get any decorations - did you start compiz with the decoration plugin? You'll need something like

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compiz decoration move resize place

at a minimum if you want to move, resize and get decorations, and have a vaguely sane window placement algorithm. After that try adding other plugins like fade, scale (if that loads, try pressing F12 for Exposé-like goodness), wobbly etc. They may not all work but have a go.

[smcallis182]

OK, I've ALMOST got this working, I just need gnome-window-decorator so I can actually move stuff around. I emerged gnome-session and control-center and have the gnome USE flag set, but compiz is still refusing to build it. What else do I need to do to get it compiled?

You probably also need libwnck (at least that was the problem for me)

Bear in mind that at the moment, Xgl and Compiz were developed primary by a Novell employee. Novell use GNOME, therefore their priority has been to make it blend well into a GNOME environment. I'm sure full KDE support won't be long in coming, as it doesn't look hugely difficult to write a window decorator that at least works even if it's not hugely pretty at the moment. There's plenty of time after all, Xgl itself is only barely on the usable side.

As for why you might not get any decorations - did you start compiz with the decoration plugin? You'll need something like

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compiz decoration move resize place

at a minimum if you want to move, resize and get decorations, and have a vaguely sane window placement algorithm. After that try adding other plugins like fade, scale (if that loads, try pressing F12 for Exposé-like goodness), wobbly etc. They may not all work but have a go.

Yes sir I surely did, I don't know if it's because I don't have gnome loaded or what. I got it so I could load Xgl, then startup fvwm and when I'd load glxcompmgr with wobbly, I'd see the windows shimmer, but then I wasn't able to move them around at all. I'm emerging gnome now, so we'll see if that makes things work a little better...

[tchak]

silly me

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DISPLAY=:1 dbus-launch gnome-session &

And dbus works

wobbly continu segfaulting...

[wernero]

Hi,

I finally managed to get the kde-window-decorator compiling and running too. You definitively need:

1) QT 4
2) qmscreen.moc and qmwindow.moc
3) Change Hanno's ebuild, remove the --disable-kde flag

Still it does not have much functionality, but at least you get to see all the effects going.

Cube is really impressing

I am using KDE 3.5.1 and X.Org 7.0, Nvidia 6600 GT, Composite Extension disabled.
For those who want to give it a try, I post some hints:

1) Emerge QT4. Add x11-libs/qt to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file, then:

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emerge =x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r2

2) Emerge everything as described in the HOWTO http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL

(For me I was not able to emerge Mesa and XGL and had to apply the patches contained in pijalu's
archive http://users.skynet.be/muaddib/my-xglov ... 10.tar.bz2, namely
mesa-glx-x11-glxproto-defines.diff (for Mesa and XGL). Did somebody else have this problem?)

3) Now how to get the kde-window-decorator (ok, it's a hack). You can use this slightly modified ebuild

compiz-20060211.ebuild

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# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-libs/glitz/glitz-0.4.4.ebuild,v 1.6 2006/01/04 23:23:46 halcy0n Exp $

inherit eutils cvs

ECVS_SERVER="cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg"
ECVS_MODULE="app/compiz"
ECVS_LOCALNAME="compiz"
S=${WORKDIR}/${ECVS_LOCALNAME}


DESCRIPTION="compiz composite manager"
HOMEPAGE="http://xorg.freedesktop.org"
LICENSE="X11"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
IUSE=""

DEPEND="media-libs/mesa
        x11-libs/libXevie
        x11-libs/startup-notification"

src_compile() {
        cp ${FILESDIR}/qwmwindow.moc ${S}/kde/window-decorator/
        cp ${FILESDIR}/qwmscreen.moc ${S}/kde/window-decorator/
        ./autogen.sh --host=${CHOST} \
                --prefix=/usr \
                --infodir=/usr/share/info \
                --mandir=/usr/share/man \
                || die

        emake || die
}

src_install() {
        make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die
}

You need these 2 files qwmwindow.moc and qwmscreen.moc. To get them, move to the compiz
source directory, into compiz/kde/window-decorator/ and execute:

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moc qwmwindow.h -oqwmwindow.moc
moc qwmscreen.h -oqwmscreen.moc

Now move qwmwindow.moc and qwmscreen.moc into your compiz overlay directory, x11-wm/compiz/files and execute:

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emerge compiz

Here you are

Now you can start Xgl, KDE and run

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kde-window-decorator

before testing compiz.

It will not allow you to move any windows except via the Alt+left click and Alt+richt-click shortcuts

For those who want to have a second KDM Login to test XGL, you just might want to change:

/usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

Add (for nvidia, ati owners change accordingly):

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[X-:1-Core]
ServerCmd=/usr/bin/Xgl -br -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv -fullscreen

This allows you to login to KDE/XGL on a second screen. Logout and restart XDM service to use
this.

Werner

PS.: I noticed that kcompmgr works on XGL even tough Composite extension is disabled in xorg.conf and
is really stable. Slower than normal tough.

[pijalu]

Just read something on suse xgl page, maybe this can have some help for people on nvidia getting black screen:

NVIDIA / proprietary driver "nvidia"

* OpenGL acceleration does not work well with Composite being active. This option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf should be disabled if it had been enabled before. Note: Xgl supports Composite anyway, even if it is disabled in xorg.conf. FBO's can be used with this driver instead of pbuffers for XVideo acceleration. Enable this by changing DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS="-accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:pbuffer" to DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS="-accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo" in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager

in one word: cut composite ext and set accel params as
-accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo

Don't think this has any help... but worst a try

[BlackEdder]

Yes sir I surely did, I don't know if it's because I don't have gnome loaded or what. I got it so I could load Xgl, then startup fvwm and when I'd load glxcompmgr with wobbly, I'd see the windows shimmer, but then I wasn't able to move them around at all. I'm emerging gnome now, so we'll see if that makes things work a little better...

You need to also run gnome-window-decorator to get window decorations. To be able to use the window decorator you need to emerge gnome-light (or at least control-center+libwnck and then re-emerge compiz.

Ow and nvidia works without a hitch for me... I just need to figure out how to change the transparency on the fly and I'll be happy.

[_dook_master_]

Got it working! After a LOT of reading here, .

compiz success!

[smcallis182]

Yes sir I surely did, I don't know if it's because I don't have gnome loaded or what. I got it so I could load Xgl, then startup fvwm and when I'd load glxcompmgr with wobbly, I'd see the windows shimmer, but then I wasn't able to move them around at all. I'm emerging gnome now, so we'll see if that makes things work a little better...

You need to also run gnome-window-decorator to get window decorations. To be able to use the window decorator you need to emerge gnome-light (or at least control-center+libwnck and then re-emerge compiz.

Ow and nvidia works without a hitch for me... I just need to figure out how to change the transparency on the fly and I'll be happy.

Emerging gnome will work just as well as gnome-light right? I've got control-center, I'll make sure libwnck is installed and then trying rebuilding compiz, here's hoping.

And I think you can use transet/transet-df and bind it to ctrl-middle mouse or some such for happy good transparency

[BlackEdder]

Yeah emerging the whole of gnome should also work.

I will look into transset. Does anyone know the keycombo for zoom in and out BTW?

[joolz]

press the "windows key" and use the mouse wheel.

[perchut2]

and how to switch "slowly", with control, to the other faces of the cube ?

[tchak]

All the keybindings can be defined with gconf-editor!
Just look in /app/compiz/

[perchut2]

thx !