Oh XGL, why dost thou hate me?

[nerd_alert]

Hey guys, i've been trying to get compiz and XGL running on my box (Dapper with fglrx) for the past few days to no avail. the first time i tried i broke KDE/X pretty damn badly and had to reinstall. My second attempt has yeilded SOME results, but not necessarily good ones. using this http://www.compiz.net/topic-205-kubu...l-compiz-howto howto over on the compiz forums, it appears I've managed to start compiz, but not XGL and further, i'm missing all windows decorations.

The biggest problem i face is that for the most part, I have no idea what i did to get to this point, that is, i have no idea what the instructions i followed mean and thus have no clue what's wrong now or how to fix it. Are there any ideas? is there a BETTER howto anywhere?

cheers

[ShOcKwAvE]

Re: Oh XGL, why dost thou hate me?

I have not tried this yet, but this site should help. It is ubuntu/kubuntu specific:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager

I'll be attempting this over the weekend (if all goes as planned) so I'll keep my eye on the forum to help in case you have any issues (assuming I dont have any)

Travis

[robert@gandalf]

Re: Oh XGL, why dost thou hate me?

i got this working yesterday, the tutorial ShOcKwAvE gave above is the way to go.

it's really cool when you get it going.

make sure you install csm so you can tweak the effects

rob

[nerd_alert]

Re: Oh XGL, why dost thou hate me?

Thanks for the heads up, i'll give this a try today or tomorrow.

[nerd_alert]

Re: Oh XGL, why dost thou hate me?

Hey again, I was just reading the Gentoo wiki on XGL and they were listing the supported hardware. My card (9800XT) was listed, but in the notes it said KDM runs slowly....what exactly does this mean I can expect?

[statyk]

Re: Oh XGL, why dost thou hate me?

I got this working from following the directions on this site very easy to setup for me check it out
http://justpretending.net/wp/2006/06...-dapper-drake/


| I know the link says ubuntu but they are basically the same and it did work here is my .Xsession file|
************************************************** *******************
#!/bin/sh
# Start up Xgl, compiz, and GNOME
# Run Xgl server on :1, on top of normal X
Xgl :1 -fullscreen -ac -accel xv -accel glxbuffer &
# Tell subsequent X programs to access the Xgl server at :1
DISPLAY=:1
# Start Compiz window manager
#gnome-window-decorator &
cgwd &
compiz gconf decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place menu switcher &
# Start GNOME
exec startkde
************************************************** ***************************

and here is the result right after doing a successful install of XGL on my Kubuntu system
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm8BzLc00GE

[linuxangel]

Re: Oh XGL, why dost thou hate me?

I couldnt resist to my temptations and I just kept on watching some many more videos in there about (K)ubuntu. Lol

[looney]

Re: Oh XGL, why dost thou hate me?

I have not tried this yet, but this site should help. It is ubuntu/kubuntu specific:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager

I'll be attempting this over the weekend (if all goes as planned) so I'll keep my eye on the forum to help in case you have any issues (assuming I dont have any)

Those repositories seem to be down atm... anybody know of another repository that's working?