Can't Find Compiz

[sithlord48]

Re: Can't Find Compiz

i don't think that you can rotate on the x axis the "cube caps" as there called are the top and bottom sides of the cube no matter how many desktops you have you will just get more cube sides.

[KB3NRY]

Re: Can't Find Compiz

I have compiz installed, I just can´t get any of its features to work.

You have it installed - but are you actually running it? Try running

compiz --replace &

in a terminal.

I was not. That did it!! Thank you so much.


Now I have to figure out how to add more desktops. It will only all me to have 1 desktop or sometimes 2. In the Compiz configuration setup it won't let me increase the desktop size. I want to learn how to make the cube. And even w/o the cube, I like to have multiple desktops. It helps keep me organised.

Does anyone have any idea why this would have stopped working. I had to type this in the terminal again to get Compiz working again. It just seemed to "disable" itself.

[sithlord48]

Re: Can't Find Compiz

Does anyone have any idea why this would have stopped working. I had to type this in the terminal again to get Compiz working again. It just seemed to "disable" itself.

you can do one of three things to fix that
1.System Settings->Advanced-> sessions (make sure save session on logout is on)
2.System Settings->Default Applications ->Window Manager -> set to compiz

3. add to your ~/.kde/Autostart a shell script to autostart compiz

compiz --replace

<- put that in a txt editor save as .sh and put it in that folder.

to add more desktops do the following
1. be sure to have the package "compiz-configurations-settins-manager"
2. run "ccsm"
3. click on general and go to desktop size make the horizontal # higher to add more desktops , cube also needs "desktop cube" and optional "cube rotation" plugins to be on

note: ccsm will allow you to change all of your compiz settings and turn on and off plugins almost ever plugin has options such as keybinding you can change them by clicking on the plugin you want to change.

[hex]

Re: Can't Find Compiz

I went ahead and ran
sudo aptitude install compiz-kde
and now things work, on jaunty anyway.

On Intrepid apt-get tells me:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
compiz-kde: Depends: compiz-core (= 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4) but 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: compiz-plugins (= 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4) but 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: libplasma2 but it is not going to be installed

aptitude came up with a solution that involved removing kdebase-plasma and libplasma3! That would be bad, so I declined. Can anyone suggest a workaround? Is it a case of having to wait for newer compiz packages?

[sithlord48]

Re: Can't Find Compiz

compiz-kde is not really for any system running kde 4.2 as libplasma2 is not supported ne more
you should have the following compiz packges installed (or at least these are the ones i have installed)

compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported compiz-plugins compiz-wrapper emerald libdecoration0 libemeraldengine0 python-compizconfig

now after you install all that you need to run
compiz --replace and emerald -- replace in order to use compiz and still have window borders, use ccsm to configure compiz

for autostart see my previous post