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**leeraconteur** · Nov 05, 2008, 11:44 PM

Re: Compiz Manager Is Located Where?

Not many help here, I can see.

Going to uninstall compiz, which is the main reason why I wanted to use 8.10.

Without it, the appeal of Kubuntu is very low.

**pansz** · Nov 06, 2008, 12:08 AM

Re: Compiz Manager Is Located Where?

Originally posted by leeraconteur

Not many help here, I can see.
Going to uninstall compiz, which is the main reason why I wanted to use 8.10.
Without it, the appeal of Kubuntu is very low.

Strange, it seems that you have no experiences on previous versions of ubuntu.

Ubuntu does *not* install compiz settings manager by default, neither will it be installed with compiz. You must install it manually:

Code:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

after that, you can use command 'ccsm' to launch it.

**kubicle** · Nov 06, 2008, 12:20 AM

Re: Compiz Manager Is Located Where?

Originally posted by leeraconteur

Not many help here, I can see.

After a whopping 50 minutes, and one total post after your original post? Some of us do sleep occasionally.
If you ask people for help, give them time to give it to you.

I don't use compiz, but I think the settings manager is in a separate package 'compizconfig-settings-manager', did you install it?

Without it, the appeal of Kubuntu is very low

I'm my opinion you don't need compiz in KDE4, as kwin (kde window manager) supports similar 3D effects itself (although the cube effect won't be in until KDE4.2, which also brings speed improvements).
Some people prefer compiz, though, and that's fine, too

EDIT: Ah, pansz beat me to it

**leeraconteur** · Nov 06, 2008, 12:37 AM

Re: Compiz Manager Is Located Where?

Originally posted by pansz

Originally posted by leeraconteur

Not many help here, I can see.
Going to uninstall compiz, which is the main reason why I wanted to use 8.10.
Without it, the appeal of Kubuntu is very low.

Strange, it seems that you have no experiences on previous versions of ubuntu.

Ubuntu does *not* install compiz settings manager by default, neither will it be installed with compiz. You must install it manually:

Code:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

after that, you can use command 'ccsm' to launch it.

I did install it manually, and there was no icon to launch it.
Synaptic to d/l packages, then reboot to install.
Why the reboot? Because package installs destroy my OS with multiple flavours.

I ran it from console:

/usr/bin/compiz-manager

Nothing. No place to start it on the App Launcher or App Menu. The files are in the various locations, which I had to use console> find to locate because there is not a usable search function on 8.10, they are here:

/usr/include/compiz
/usr/lib/compiz
/usr/share/compiz
/usr/share/doc/compiz
/usr/bin/compiz
/etc/xdg/compiz
/home/anon/.config/compiz

But no way to access manager settings.

I follow all of your instructions, and 100% of the time I get a different result.

**leeraconteur** · Nov 06, 2008, 12:53 AM

Re: Compiz Manager Is Located Where?

I always get different results.

I did this:

Code:

anon@ibex:~$ sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

[sudo] password for anon:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
metacity-common libgnome-menu2 libgnome-desktop-2-7
libgnome-window-settings1 libmetacity0

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

The following extra packages will be installed:
python-compizconfig
The following NEW packages will be installed:
compizconfig-settings-manager python-compizconfig
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
Need to get 634kB/672kB of archives.
After this operation, 4309kB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe compizconfig-settings-manager 0.7.8-0ubuntu3 [634kB]
Fetched 634kB in 5s (120kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package python-compizconfig.
(Reading database ... 94348 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-compizconfig (from .../python-compizconfig_0.7.8-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package compizconfig-settings-manager.
Unpacking compizconfig-settings-manager (from .../compizconfig-settings-manager_0.7.8-0ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
Setting up python-compizconfig (0.7.8-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up compizconfig-settings-manager (0.7.8-0ubuntu3) ...

root@ibex:/home/anon# apt-get autoremove

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
metacity-common libgnome-menu2 libgnome-desktop-2-7
libgnome-window-settings1 libmetacity0
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libgnome-desktop-2-7 libgnome-menu2 libgnome-window-settings1 libmetacity0
metacity-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
After this operation, 13.3MB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

(Reading database ... 94545 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libgnome-window-settings1 ...
Removing libgnome-desktop-2-7 ...
Removing libgnome-menu2 ...
Removing libmetacity0 ...
Removing metacity-common ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for man-db ...

root@ibex:/home/anon# ccsm

No protocol specified
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning: couldnot open display
warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ccsm", line 100, in <module>
import ccm
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from ccm.Conflicts import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Conflicts.py", line 27, in <module>
from ccm.Constants import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Constants.py", line 38, in <module>
CurrentScreenNum = gtk.gdk.display_get_default().get_default_screen() .get_number()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_default_screen'

root@ibex:/home/anon#

Again, NOTHING HAPPENS. This is a recurring theme with all Distros I have used.

Someone tells me 'Well, it SHOULDN'T happen like that', I tell then that IT DOES HAPPEN LIKE THAT, and no one is of any help at all. I go to App Launcher, Settings-->CompizConfig Settings Manager, and this is what I see.

Well, it seems my OS won't alt-print screen, so I cannot do a screen shot.

What I see is the CompizConfig Settings Manager window, and it is all white. There are no settings to click. Just a big open white window, and Filter, Category, All, Preferences and Advanced Search, Close on the left had side. Nothing else. I click in the white space and nothing happens. No settings, no boxes to click. Just white space.

YES! I know that 'it shouldn't happen like this'. The point is that IT IS HAPPENING LIKE THIS.

**kubicle** · Nov 06, 2008, 01:06 AM

Re: Compiz Manager Is Located Where?

Run ccsm as user, not as root

**pansz** · Nov 06, 2008, 01:23 AM

Re: Compiz Manager Is Located Where?

run ccsm as normal user should solve your problem.

PS: next time if you installed some package and don't know where it goes, use the command "dpkg -L", for example if you want to know what's in the package compizconfig-settings-manager:

Code:

$ dpkg -L compizconfig-settings-manager
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/ccsm
/usr/share
...

**cantab** · Nov 06, 2008, 02:53 AM

Re: Compiz Manager Is Located Where?

Originally posted by leeraconteur

Originally posted by pansz

Originally posted by leeraconteur

Not many help here, I can see.
Going to uninstall compiz, which is the main reason why I wanted to use 8.10.
Without it, the appeal of Kubuntu is very low.

Strange, it seems that you have no experiences on previous versions of ubuntu.

Ubuntu does *not* install compiz settings manager by default, neither will it be installed with compiz. You must install it manually:

Code:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

after that, you can use command 'ccsm' to launch it.

I did install it manually, and there was no icon to launch it.
Synaptic to d/l packages, then reboot to install.
Why the reboot? Because package installs destroy my OS with multiple flavours.

I ran it from console:

/usr/bin/compiz-manager

Nothing. No place to start it on the App Launcher or App Menu. The files are in the various locations, which I had to use console> find to locate because there is not a usable search function on 8.10, they are here:

/usr/include/compiz
/usr/lib/compiz
/usr/share/compiz
/usr/share/doc/compiz
/usr/bin/compiz
/etc/xdg/compiz
/home/anon/.config/compiz

But no way to access manager settings.

I follow all of your instructions, and 100% of the time I get a different result.

Read the fine print. The command is 'ccsm'

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