Compiz-Fusion...

[jdmastajoe]

Need help getting this to work on my Desktop. Works on my laptop fine =( I have an ATI x1950 pro. I have installed fglx drivers and they seem to be working fine. I also have installed the following packages. sudo apt-get install compiz-kde emerald compizconfig-settings-manager and I run compiz using compiz --replace.

I get this following error message when trying to run compiz-fusion:

joe@joe-desktop:~$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
no /usr/bin/metacity found, exiting

Please folx any help appreciated. Thanks a ton!!

[Snowhog]

Re: Compiz-Fusion...

Open Adept Manager and check that the following packages are installed:

compiz-core
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
compiz-fusion-plugins-main
compiz-kde
compiz-plugins
compizconfig-settings-manager
emerald
libcompizconfig-backend-kconfig
libcompizconfig0
libdecoration0
libemeraldengine0
python-compizconfig

[jdmastajoe]

Re: Compiz-Fusion...

Yes, those are all installed.

[jdmastajoe]

Re: Compiz-Fusion...

Any idea? I'm clueless. Never had this prob before but I'm willing to bet it has something to do with the ATI driver I installed. Anyone please help greatly appreciated i'm all out of ideas.

[jdmastajoe]

Re: Compiz-Fusion...

issue fixed with

sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

=D Now I'm just missing icon images in compizconfig settings manager. Not a big deal though. If anyone knows would be appreciated.

[jdmastajoe]

Re: Compiz-Fusion...

What's buggin me more right now is that I cannot drag windows to different parts of the cube.... =\ no idea why

[Snowhog]

Re: Compiz-Fusion...

There is no icon (yet) for the Advanced Desktop Effects Settings. Open Advanced Desktop Effects Settings and check under Categories that the following items are selected:

General

Accessibility

Desktop
Rotate Cube
Desktop Cube
Expo
Effects
Animations
Cube Reflection
Fading Windows
Window Decoration

Extras

Image Loading
JPEG
Text
Png
Svg

Utility
Resize Info
Video Playback
Regex Matching
Workarounds

Window Management
Application Switcher
Move Window
Snapping Windows
Place Windows
Scale

Uncategorized
Resize Window

You will probably want to play with some of the various settins within these items, but these are the ones I have active, and my Cube/Desktop does everything I want it to. 8)