Compiz settings no Preferences Button.

[maxie]

It appears that the Preferences button (lower left) in the Compiz Config Settings panel has stopped responding.
After running:

maxie@quigley:~$ ccsm
Info: No sexy-python package found, don't worry it's optional.
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Window.py", line 403, in ShowPreferences
  preferencesPage = PreferencesPage(self, self.Context)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Pages.py", line 1231, in __init__
  self.ProfileBackendPage = ProfileBackendPage(main, context)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Pages.py", line 850, in __init__
  index = self.Context.Profiles.values().index(self.Context.Profiles[name])
KeyError: 'wobbles'

Either from menu or terminal.
Anything I/we can do?

[gameforge]

Re: Compiz settings no Preferences Button.

So that's the output after you push the preferences button? Odd, mine works.

Can you go into adept manager, search for "compiz"... if you're using Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10 release, make sure your versions and maintainers for these packages are like this:

compizconfig-settings-manager, version 0.5.2+git20070912-0ubuntu1, maintainer Michael Vogt
libcompizconfig-backend-gconf, version 0.5.2+git20071010-0ubuntu1, maintainer Michael Vogt
libcompizconfig0, version 0.5.2+git20070919-0ubuntu3, maintainer Michael Vogt
python-compizconfig, version 0.5.2+git20070912-0ubuntu1, maintainer Ubuntu MOTU Developers

I had a similar problem which turned out to be because I had been using other repositories and compiz packages before I upgraded to Gutsy. But in my case, it gave me a similar Python error, complained about No sexy-python being found and all, but it happened right when I would launch ccsm and wouldn't run at all.

[maxie]

Re: Compiz settings no Preferences Button.

Thanks for your response.
From a terminal I type ccsm and I do get the manager.
I press the Preferences button but the Catagory page remains. No Preferences page appears.

The terminal output before clicking Pref button:

maxie@quigley:~$ ccsm
Info: No sexy-python package found, don't worry it's optional.

The output after the preferences button is pressed:

maxie@quigley:~$ ccsm
Info: No sexy-python package found, don't worry it's optional.
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Window.py", line 403, in ShowPreferences
  preferencesPage = PreferencesPage(self, self.Context)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Pages.py", line 1231, in __init__
  self.ProfileBackendPage = ProfileBackendPage(main, context)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Pages.py", line 850, in __init__
  index = self.Context.Profiles.values().index(self.Context.Profiles[name])
KeyError: 'wobbles'

Checked those packages and seem good although I had backend-kconfig and backend-gconf both installed.
I removed backend-gconf but no cigar. It did work first time i installed but is not working now.
No problem though because I will live and compiz (hate this name) works fine.

[gameforge]

Re: Compiz settings no Preferences Button.

Close ccsm, and look in ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config - what's the "profile" field set to? Try clearing it.