On 08/23/06 16:31 -0400 Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
On 08/23/06 16:05 -0400 Louis Garcia II wrote:
What are the differences between compiz and metacity? I would like to try the desktop bling on my box which has a radeon 9250. Metacity has a composite manager, can I just enable that or is compiz better?
You'll need to use compiz. If you install the latest version for development you can enable it just by System-->Prefs-->More Prefs-->Desktop Effects.
Sam
Got it working and looks great. I think gnome workspace switcher is not aware of compiz because it will only show one workspace. ctrl+alt+{left,right} arrow changes the workspaces or cubes. It would be nice if the workspace switcher did this, I guess it needs some code.
Also, I can't move a window to another workspace by right clicking the window bar. Could this be related?
-Louis
Probably a stupid problem and not a bug but..
Latest rawhide :
$ rpm -q compiz metacity compiz-0.0.13-0.17.20060817git.fc6 metacity-2.15.34-1.fc6
When I try : System-->Prefs-->More Prefs-->Desktop Effects
It seems to remove all window management, I get all the applications from my eight workspaces on the one screen, I can no longer switch between workspaces (which has been reported before so I understand this issue) and the applications no longer have borders and are unable to be manipulated.
Anybody else seen this or have I a bodgy setup?
On 8/23/06, Naoki naoki@valuecommerce.com wrote:
Probably a stupid problem and not a bug but..
Latest rawhide :
$ rpm -q compiz metacity compiz-0.0.13-0.17.20060817git.fc6 metacity-2.15.34-1.fc6
When I try : System-->Prefs-->More Prefs-->Desktop Effects
It seems to remove all window management, I get all the applications from my eight workspaces on the one screen, I can no longer switch between workspaces (which has been reported before so I understand this issue) and the applications no longer have borders and are unable to be manipulated.
Anybody else seen this or have I a bodgy setup?
See similar stuff.
Try disabling and then reenabling desktop-effects. That 'fixed it' for me (at least, up to the current state of 'working').
tom
[The desktop-effects prefs app doesn't change the label of the button to 'disable', but it seems to do that.]
Tom London wrote:
On 8/23/06, Naoki naoki@valuecommerce.com wrote:
Probably a stupid problem and not a bug but..
Latest rawhide :
$ rpm -q compiz metacity compiz-0.0.13-0.17.20060817git.fc6 metacity-2.15.34-1.fc6
When I try : System-->Prefs-->More Prefs-->Desktop Effects
It seems to remove all window management, I get all the applications from my eight workspaces on the one screen, I can no longer switch between workspaces (which has been reported before so I understand this issue) and the applications no longer have borders and are unable to be manipulated.
Anybody else seen this or have I a bodgy setup?
See similar stuff.
Try disabling and then reenabling desktop-effects. That 'fixed it' for me (at least, up to the current state of 'working').
tom
[The desktop-effects prefs app doesn't change the label of the button to 'disable', but it seems to do that.]
Unfortunately this didn't help. I still lose window management and can't switch between apps, can't switch focus nor workspaces.
When I "Enable Desktop Effects", is there a log somewhere that might explain why it's failing ?
When I try it I do end up with the "desktop-effects" process but no compiz processes, anything I should be checking for there?
Naoki wrote :
When I try : System-->Prefs-->More Prefs-->Desktop Effects
It seems to remove all window management, I get all the applications from my eight workspaces on the one screen, I can no longer switch between workspaces (which has been reported before so I understand this issue) and the applications no longer have borders and are unable to be manipulated.
I saw this on a computer where I had dri disabled in xorg.conf. Re-enabling it and restarting X made the switch to compiz work.
Matthias
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 13:43 +0900, Naoki wrote:
It seems to remove all window management, I get all the applications from my eight workspaces on the one screen, I can no longer switch between workspaces (which has been reported before so I understand this issue) and the applications no longer have borders and are unable to be manipulated.
Saw the same thing about the borders and stuff disappearing.
Louis Garcia II wrote :
Got it working and looks great. I think gnome workspace switcher is not aware of compiz because it will only show one workspace. ctrl+alt+{left,right} arrow changes the workspaces or cubes. It would be nice if the workspace switcher did this, I guess it needs some code.
Also, I can't move a window to another workspace by right clicking the window bar. Could this be related?
Having the GNOME workspace switcher and compiz play nice together is definitely something I'd like to have too, including the ability to drag and drop the miniature of a window from a desktop to another.
The inability to "move to another workspace" or "set visible on all workspaces" when right clicking the top window bar is also something I miss. But I realized yesterday that you can move an application to the neighbour workspaces by simply dragging it to the side and forcing a bit. I noticed it when a window that was a little "off screen"... could be seen partially in the next workspace :-)
Since today, my gkrellm finally appears on all workspaces... dunno if I changed a setting or if something got fixed :-/ I have : - set sticky - set on top of other windows of the same type - set window type to be a dock or a panel (this might be the trick)
Now what bothers me most is that switching to a tty and trying to get back into X gives me a black screen, and I have to reboot the computer. On both an r300 and an i810 setup. Is this known and has been filed? (I couldn't find it in bugzilla)
Other than that, real terminal transparency is great and I'm lovin' all the nice fading and wobbliness ;-)
Matthias
One minor thing I was wondering about, without desktop effects I had F1-F8 setup as keyboard shortcuts to switch to the associated workspace. This stops functioning after enabling compiz and I'm wondering if that's a short coming or just a setting I've yet to correctly enable?
Dnia 24-08-2006, czw o godzinie 10:36 +0200, Matthias Saou napisał(a):
Now what bothers me most is that switching to a tty and trying to get back into X gives me a black screen, and I have to reboot the computer. On both an r300 and an i810 setup. Is this known and has been filed? (I couldn't find it in bugzilla)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7916
Lam
Matthias Saou wrote: ...
Now what bothers me most is that switching to a tty and trying to get back into X gives me a black screen, and I have to reboot the computer. On both an r300 and an i810 setup. Is this known and has been filed? (I couldn't find it in bugzilla)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199692 - please give the -29 xserver a try.
Kristian
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