Compiz Fusion Mini-How-to.

[Fireblend]

Hello! I decided to do something for society today and make a little how-to on what and how to install the new Compiz Fusion. These are the steps I used to get it working. As you know, ymmv so be careful when following the following steps. Also, as mentioned on the sticky, this isn't for ubuntu newbies, although anyone who can follow directions can do it, really. Also, I'd advice to follow this only if you already have either beryl or compiz installed and using, so you know your graphic card is supported and you don't get the WSOD :p

Anyway, here it is:


WHAT IS IT?

Well, I think the best way to explain what it is is by watching a video at youtube. Here's a few links:

Video 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-2ZUAZoGOQ) / Video 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w) / Video 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EytuaK04llw)

On the other hand, if you feel like a theoric definition, I guess we can use Wikipedia, which states:

"Compiz Fusion is an extension of the Compiz compositing window manager for the X Window System. It was created from the remerging of Beryl into Compiz. It aims to port almost all of the features of Beryl to Compiz plugins, and continue to improve Compiz's core functionality.

There has yet to be an official release of Compiz Fusion, but preliminary packages are available."

So it basically means that unless you want to be stuck with your current beryl or compiz effects (and I'm not saying that's a bad option), you're gonna have to switch to Fusion sooner or later. Now, it's among Gutsy's goals to have this included, so if you are a patient human being you can wait. On the other hand, if you feel like upgrading now, follow these pretty simple instructions to get the current version.

Now, the current version is pretty stable (about as much as Beryl from my experience so far), so you don't have to worry about it being to unstable or anything but like any alpha/beta of anything, I can't guarantee you're gonna have the same results as me, so I'm not responsable for whatever might happen to your computer. Anyway, follow the instructions already:


HOW TO INSTALL:

I'm gonna assume we're installing on a fresh install, so most of you (specially if you already have experience installing eyecandy) might already have some steps covered, like getting Trevino's repository, for example. But to help those who might not have it installed, I'm gonna cover all the steps.

STEP 1:

First, we'll be adding Trevino's repositories (http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/), which is where we're getting our Fusion copy from. You can also find a lot of other eyecandy software from them, like Avant Window Nav. and Affinity. Anyway, first we go to System->Administration->Software sources and select the "Third-party sources" tab. You're gonna get a listbox and a button that says "add" below it. Click there and paste the following:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty eyecandy

Now do exactly the same and add this:

deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty eyecandy

Make sure that the added lines have appeared in the listbox. Done? Now close that window and open up the terminal. Once we're on the terminal, type the following to get the GPG Key for the repositories we just added (You can probably skip this step, but it's best to do this).

sudo wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Once entered, just wait. If for some reason it seems to be done but the "user@computer:$ " thing doesn't appear, close the terminal and open a new one or just start hitting random keys, for some reason, that happens to me so I thought I'd add that to avoid you waiting centuries for nothing to happen. Anyway, once that's done:

sudo apt-get update

You should notice the two lines we added in the update list. If they're there, so far so good.

STEP 2:

Now we'll install what we need so we can start playing with our new beautiful effects. I should note that most of the following comes from http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=131, so you might as well go there and continue.

Anyway, just type these on a terminal:

sudo apt-get remove compiz-core desktop-effects

sudo apt-get install compiz # compiz-gnome AND/OR compiz-kde

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager # compizconfig-backends-* ?!

sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-*

If everything got removed / installed correctly, just press alt+f2 and type

compiz --replace

If all went well, congratulations, you now have Compiz Fusion! You can configure it at the System->Preferences menu.


TROUBLESHOOTING:

Alright, now to make this guide kinda useful, I'll add a couple of fixes that might help, feel free to add more in the comments or something.

1. Windows are not moving as smoothly as they used to in Beryl / Compiz.

This happened to me and it took me a while to fix. However, it shouldn't be too difficult. The current move plugin for some reason acts like that, so until they fix it we'll install a replacement plugin which is actually the old move plugin :p

[UPDATE] Before doing the following, you have to install the following packages from the repos if you don't have them already:

libxslt1.1
libxslt1-dev
compiz-dev


1. Go here: http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.php?t=1064
2. Get the douge plugin
3. Untar it anywhere, preferably home so you don't have to navigate too mcuh on terminal.
4. Navigate to the new douge directory and type
make; make install
5. Restart Fusion
6. Go to the configurator and deselect move plugin, select douge.

That should do it, but if you see no change, restart the GUI (ctrl+alt+backspace) to make sure before making sure it's not working.

(Credit goes to Delfick from opencompositing forums for this one)

2. No window borders!

Well actually, I think there are a million possibilities for why this happens, but everytime it happens to me I can fix it with this command. Run it with alt+f2:

emerald --replace &


Well, that's all for now, hope it works out as well for you as it did for me, best of luck! :p

[smartboyathome]

You should start from metacity to avoid the no window border error. Also, I would suggest using compiz --replace, as if you are using your metacity theme in compiz, that will restore it, and not cause you to have to use Emerald.

[Motoxrdude]

Works with xgl.

[KrazyPenguin]

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

I believe this command needs to sudo in front of it so it looks like this:
sudo wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Doing the sudo apt-get udate gave me key errors:
But since I was already logged in the terminal as root I did the wget "part" again and it didn't stall, like the first time. Then the update went perfect.

;-)

[Vorian]

you can also add the key by entering this in the terminal

KEY=81836EBF; gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv $KEY && gpg --export --armor $KEY | sudo apt-key add -

[zero244]

Is this new version compiz fusion for fiesty only or can you install it on Edgy. If you can install it on edgy do you us the same repository.

[superyounan1]

AWESOME! its working in my XGL session, whereas the old Compiz did not!

I noticed my wobbly windows were sluggish, so i tried compiling the bouge plugin, but got an error:

make; make install
[: 1: ==: unexpected operator
-e compiling : bouge.c -> build/libbouge.loPackage compiz was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `compiz.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'compiz' found
bouge.c:32:20: error: compiz.h: No such file or directory
bouge.c:47: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveMetadata'
bouge.c:76: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'HandleEventProc'
bouge.c:93: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'PaintWindowProc'
bouge.c:120: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitiate'
bouge.c:222: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveTerminate'
bouge.c:264: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveGetYConstrainRegion'
bouge.c:353: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:535: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:676: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'movePaintWindow'
bouge.c:711: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'Display'
bouge.c: In function 'moveDisplayInitOptions':
bouge.c:713: error: 'CompOption' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:713: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
bouge.c:713: error: for each function it appears in.)
bouge.c:713: error: 'o' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:715: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:717: error: 'CompOptionTypeAction' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:718: error: 'moveInitiate' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:719: error: 'moveTerminate' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:720: error: 'FALSE' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:722: error: 'CompBindingTypeButton' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:723: error: 'CompActionStateInitButton' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:724: error: 'CompAltMask' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:725: error: 'Button1' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:726: error: 'CompBindingTypeKey' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:727: error: 'CompActionStateInitKey' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:730: warning: implicit declaration of function 'XKeysymToKeycode'
bouge.c:730: error: 'display' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:730: warning: implicit declaration of function 'XStringToKeysym'
bouge.c:732: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:734: error: 'CompOptionTypeInt' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:739: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:741: error: 'CompOptionTypeBool' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:744: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c: At top level:
bouge.c:750: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
bouge.c:762: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveSetDisplayOption'
bouge.c:798: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitDisplay'
bouge.c:835: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:848: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitScreen'
bouge.c:873: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:891: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInit'
bouge.c:901: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:908: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:913: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
bouge.c:919: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveVTable'
bouge.c:941: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
make: *** [build/libbouge.lo] Error 1
[: 1: ==: unexpected operator
-e compiling : bouge.c -> build/libbouge.loPackage compiz was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `compiz.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'compiz' found
bouge.c:32:20: error: compiz.h: No such file or directory
bouge.c:47: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveMetadata'
bouge.c:76: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'HandleEventProc'
bouge.c:93: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'PaintWindowProc'
bouge.c:120: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitiate'
bouge.c:222: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveTerminate'
bouge.c:264: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveGetYConstrainRegion'
bouge.c:353: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:535: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:676: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'movePaintWindow'
bouge.c:711: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'Display'
bouge.c: In function 'moveDisplayInitOptions':
bouge.c:713: error: 'CompOption' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:713: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
bouge.c:713: error: for each function it appears in.)
bouge.c:713: error: 'o' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:715: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:717: error: 'CompOptionTypeAction' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:718: error: 'moveInitiate' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:719: error: 'moveTerminate' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:720: error: 'FALSE' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:722: error: 'CompBindingTypeButton' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:723: error: 'CompActionStateInitButton' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:724: error: 'CompAltMask' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:725: error: 'Button1' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:726: error: 'CompBindingTypeKey' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:727: error: 'CompActionStateInitKey' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:730: warning: implicit declaration of function 'XKeysymToKeycode'
bouge.c:730: error: 'display' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:730: warning: implicit declaration of function 'XStringToKeysym'
bouge.c:732: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:734: error: 'CompOptionTypeInt' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:739: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:741: error: 'CompOptionTypeBool' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:744: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c: At top level:
bouge.c:750: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
bouge.c:762: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveSetDisplayOption'
bouge.c:798: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitDisplay'
bouge.c:835: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:848: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitScreen'
bouge.c:873: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:891: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInit'
bouge.c:901: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:908: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:913: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
bouge.c:919: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveVTable'
bouge.c:941: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
make: *** [build/libbouge.lo] Error 1

[Nezing]

Also had a look at Compiz-Fusion here:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Beryl-Is-Dead-Long-Live-Compiz-Fusion-57881.shtml

Some people say that "eye candy" should not sell the product alone,but on this evidence,it is a straight five.Woo hoo.
Sorry,I got carried away there. :)

It will also be pre-installed with Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) .

[Stephen Howard]

I just wish I didn't keep reading 'compositing' and 'composting'.

[Stephen Howard]

sudo apt-get remove compiz-core desktop-effects

It says that its going to remove: compiz compiz-core compiz-extra compiz-gtk compiz-plugins desktop-effects ubuntu-desktop

Should I be worried that its going to remove ubuntu-desktop?

[mrdeeds2324]

Totally works! thank you very much!

[janbockaert]

It says that its going to remove: compiz compiz-core compiz-extra compiz-gtk compiz-plugins desktop-effects ubuntu-desktop

Should I be worried that its going to remove ubuntu-desktop?

no, ubuntu-desktop is a meta package, removing one package from this meta-package, forces ubuntu-desktop to be removed (i 'm guessing desktop-effects is part of ubuntu-desktop). But every other package installed with ubuntu-desktop will still be installed.

[Fireblend]

AWESOME! its working in my XGL session, whereas the old Compiz did not!

I noticed my wobbly windows were sluggish, so i tried compiling the bouge plugin, but got an error:

make; make install
[: 1: ==: unexpected operator
-e compiling : bouge.c -> build/libbouge.loPackage compiz was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `compiz.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'compiz' found
bouge.c:32:20: error: compiz.h: No such file or directory
bouge.c:47: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveMetadata'
bouge.c:76: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'HandleEventProc'
bouge.c:93: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'PaintWindowProc'
bouge.c:120: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitiate'
bouge.c:222: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveTerminate'
bouge.c:264: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveGetYConstrainRegion'
bouge.c:353: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:535: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:676: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'movePaintWindow'
bouge.c:711: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'Display'
bouge.c: In function 'moveDisplayInitOptions':
bouge.c:713: error: 'CompOption' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:713: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
bouge.c:713: error: for each function it appears in.)
bouge.c:713: error: 'o' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:715: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:717: error: 'CompOptionTypeAction' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:718: error: 'moveInitiate' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:719: error: 'moveTerminate' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:720: error: 'FALSE' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:722: error: 'CompBindingTypeButton' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:723: error: 'CompActionStateInitButton' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:724: error: 'CompAltMask' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:725: error: 'Button1' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:726: error: 'CompBindingTypeKey' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:727: error: 'CompActionStateInitKey' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:730: warning: implicit declaration of function 'XKeysymToKeycode'
bouge.c:730: error: 'display' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:730: warning: implicit declaration of function 'XStringToKeysym'
bouge.c:732: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:734: error: 'CompOptionTypeInt' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:739: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:741: error: 'CompOptionTypeBool' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:744: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c: At top level:
bouge.c:750: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
bouge.c:762: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveSetDisplayOption'
bouge.c:798: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitDisplay'
bouge.c:835: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:848: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitScreen'
bouge.c:873: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:891: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInit'
bouge.c:901: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:908: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:913: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
bouge.c:919: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveVTable'
bouge.c:941: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
make: *** [build/libbouge.lo] Error 1
[: 1: ==: unexpected operator
-e compiling : bouge.c -> build/libbouge.loPackage compiz was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `compiz.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'compiz' found
bouge.c:32:20: error: compiz.h: No such file or directory
bouge.c:47: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveMetadata'
bouge.c:76: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'HandleEventProc'
bouge.c:93: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'PaintWindowProc'
bouge.c:120: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitiate'
bouge.c:222: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveTerminate'
bouge.c:264: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveGetYConstrainRegion'
bouge.c:353: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:535: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:676: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'movePaintWindow'
bouge.c:711: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'Display'
bouge.c: In function 'moveDisplayInitOptions':
bouge.c:713: error: 'CompOption' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:713: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
bouge.c:713: error: for each function it appears in.)
bouge.c:713: error: 'o' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:715: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:717: error: 'CompOptionTypeAction' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:718: error: 'moveInitiate' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:719: error: 'moveTerminate' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:720: error: 'FALSE' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:722: error: 'CompBindingTypeButton' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:723: error: 'CompActionStateInitButton' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:724: error: 'CompAltMask' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:725: error: 'Button1' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:726: error: 'CompBindingTypeKey' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:727: error: 'CompActionStateInitKey' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:730: warning: implicit declaration of function 'XKeysymToKeycode'
bouge.c:730: error: 'display' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:730: warning: implicit declaration of function 'XStringToKeysym'
bouge.c:732: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:734: error: 'CompOptionTypeInt' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:739: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c:741: error: 'CompOptionTypeBool' undeclared (first use in this function)
bouge.c:744: error: 'MoveDisplay' has no member named 'opt'
bouge.c: At top level:
bouge.c:750: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
bouge.c:762: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveSetDisplayOption'
bouge.c:798: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitDisplay'
bouge.c:835: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:848: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInitScreen'
bouge.c:873: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:891: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveInit'
bouge.c:901: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:908: error: expected ')' before '*' token
bouge.c:913: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
bouge.c:919: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'moveVTable'
bouge.c:941: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
make: *** [build/libbouge.lo] Error 1


Damn I'm sorry, I'm gonna update the main post now. WHat's missing is that you gotta have the following packages installed (you can get em from the repos).

libxslt1.1
libxslt1-dev
compiz-dev

Sorry! I'll even PM you to make sure you get the message :p

[Vorian]

Should I be worried that its going to remove ubuntu-desktop?

No

[superyounan1]

Damn I'm sorry, I'm gonna update the main post now. WHat's missing is that you gotta have the following packages installed (you can get em from the repos).

libxslt1.1
libxslt1-dev
compiz-dev

Sorry! I'll even PM you to make sure you get the message :p

Thanks! gonna try that.

Its running well, feels very stable. There are some basic things that I cant figure out yet, like how to change my window decorations. I'm gonna keep clicking around, its got to be in the nice new compiz-config manager somwhere.

Thanks again

[Stephen Howard]

no, ubuntu-desktop is a meta package, removing one package from this meta-package, forces ubuntu-desktop to be removed (i 'm guessing desktop-effects is part of ubuntu-desktop). But every other package installed with ubuntu-desktop will still be installed.

Thanks, I guessed as much, but wasn't sure. I wish they'd mark meta packages so that its clear.

[defishguy]

I just successfully installed it on Feisty and after using it for the last fifteen minutes I have to admit that I'm very impressed. Excellent work!

[Fireblend]

I just successfully installed it on Feisty and after using it for the last fifteen minutes I have to admit that I'm very impressed. Excellent work!

Thanks! It's great to know the guide's actually being of use :D Enjoy your new Fusion effects!

[Vorian]

Nice work Fireblend :)

[nsegative]

Hey could someone help me out a bit?
I have a laptop with a geforce 7400. I installed this package and everything went smoothly. However when I turned it on the borders would dissappear (I'm using the default theme human) and the emerald command I used did nothing but give me an error. So I looked around and found this:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/5317
It told me to do this

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Add the following lines to it:

Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "True"

So it now reads:

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
However this did not help and I still had borders. So I opened it again, and changed the depth to 24 and rebooted. Now compiz --replace fails to do anything. Any ideas how to fix the borders and run in 32 bit mode?

[Vorian]

did you use

alt+F2 and enter compiz --replace in the command line?

[nsegative]

did you use

alt+F2 and enter compiz --replace in the command line?
Yep, it works in 16 depth but when I go to xorg.conf and change depth to 24 it doesnt load anymore (also I'm ok with 16 as long as my border comes back). If its something wrong with the theme can u suggest a dark theme that will work with it? Thanks (also terminal is just a white blank when I enable it in 16 bit with compiz-fusion on).

[gslo]

Installed on fresh xubuntu (no beryl, just nvidia drivers) and it seems to be running fine. Exept how can I start the compizconfig-settings-manager to enable 3d effects, cube, etc. There is no menu entry in xubuntu for this I cant figure uot the command to start it. Synaptic confirms that its installed.

Thanks

[smartboyathome]

to start the settings manager, type ccsm in a terminal

[gslo]

Thank you smart! I never thought to abbreviate.

[Useff]

This works great! Thanks a lot! I'm using a Radeon 9800 Pro with XGL.

A couple minor gripes:

1) The "super" key doesn't work. I made sure it was mapped to the win key in the keyboard preferences in GNOME.

Edit: Fixed! I ran gnome-settings-daemon and now everything works. This also does the trick if your icon, control, or window border theme options aren't taking effect

2) The only way I can change a theme in Emerald is if I change it in the theme manager, then run emerald --replace.

Can anyone help me out?

[moevmie]

Hey, I'm getting this message

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
compiz: Depends: compiz-decorator
E: Broken packages


so it's not really working for me, anybody has any suggestions????

thanks..
m

EDIT: I GOT IT WORKING, I GUESS THE REPOSITORIES CHANGED...

[nsegative]

I'm still having no luck with the missing borders, anyone?

[smartboyathome]

I would suggest using 16 bit since it works.

[saldie]

Thanks for the how-to.
Everytime I restart my computer I have to start it manually.
How do I make it auto-start?

[smartboyathome]

System > Preferences > Session, then make a new entry using the command "compiz --replace" and enjoy!

[Vorian]

System > Preferences > Session, then make a new entry using the command "compiz --replace" and enjoy!You may not want to do that as this is in development right now and can cause some head aches if it breaks.

[saldie]

Thanks for the reply, but what do I enter in the "command" part.

[smartboyathome]

compiz --replace is what you enter in the command part.

[saldie]

that was easy enough, thanks again.

[DraeLee]

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
compiz: Depends: compiz-decorator
E: Broken packages



I am having the same problem as the other gentleman. I have been searching high and low and cannot find a solution. I am using x86_64 feisty fawn. I got beryl to work properly but I cannot get the compiz to work any help would be appreciated I have been stuck on this for hours

thx in advance

[steveneddy]

Compiz Fusion is COOL!

Nice effects. I like the reflections and the Tab Group plugin.

Now THIS is how a modern desktop is supposed to be!

Very nice.

Hate the name - love the effects.

Thank you devs. Thank you David. Thank you all that are involved in this great project.

-SE

[Joe_CoT]

Reading package lists... Done
I am having the same problem as the other gentleman. I have been searching high and low and cannot find a solution. I am using x86_64 feisty fawn. I got beryl to work properly but I cannot get the compiz to work any help would be appreciated I have been stuck on this for hours
thx in advance

Most probably they didn't package the 64 bit version correctly. Happens a lot. :( i'm in the same boat

[gslo]

Thank to all , working beautifully!

[DraeLee]

well if thats the case that really sucks then well I got beryl working
i really wanted to try out compiz fusion though

[SendDerek]

Just wanted to drop by and say thanks for taking the initiative to dive in and provide this how-to on these forums!

I tried it, but alas... it did not work for me. I couldn't get any of the effects to work and my window borders weren't showing up. Oh well... it won't be too much longer before Gutsy has all of the kinks worked out! I can wait until then.

You were right though... if it doesn't work for you, it's a headache to get back to where you were before! lol.

[vexorian]

I had issues , but I just made a reboot and the effeCts worked! before the reboot Compiz--replaCe did nothing.

[soro2005]

My friggin goodness! And I thought Beryl was great! Thanks a lot for the HowTo. I've been spending the last hour and a half spinning my cube with my eyes wide open and marveling at how my processor load graph doesn't even think about doing anything else than just flatlining! Incredible!

[DShepherd]

I'm still having no luck with the missing borders, anyone?

I had to install the emerald packages from the Trevino's repository.. and that seemed to work worked

sudo apt-get install libemeraldengine0 emearld

My friggin goodness! And I thought Beryl was great! Thanks a lot for the HowTo. I've been spending the last hour and a half spinning my cube with my eyes wide open and marveling at how my processor load graph doesn't even think about doing anything else than just flatlining! Incredible!

I still miss some things from beryl like the miniview plugin.. but i guess that will all come in time

[nsegative]

I had to install the emerald packages from the Trevino's repository.. and that seemed to work worked

sudo apt-get install libemeraldengine0 emearld



I still miss some things from beryl like the miniview plugin.. but i guess that will all come in time
This is what I get:
sudo apt-get install libemeraldengine0 emearld
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libemeraldengine0 is already the newest version.
libemeraldengine0 set to manual installed.
E: Couldn't find package emearld
Could you list your steps after you installed compiz fusion including the needed emerald files? Thanks!

c

[flankker]

nsegative: u made a typo, its not "emearld" it is "emerald" :)

[nsegative]

nsegative: u made a typo, its not "emearld" it is "emerald" :)
Still the same results. If I do emerald --replace in terminal I get : wnck-warning **: unhandled action type (nil)
Oh and one more question, I set compiz --replace to boot in session and my desktop would fail to load ( i had to manually remove it in recovery console).

[chrisrx]

I can't find my most used feature from beryl which was rotating the cube with the scroll wheel when the pointer was near the edge of the screen. Is it not included in compiz?

[kystorms]

how do we get to where we can change the themes?

I saw on another post this is what we need to have in our preferences -gcompizthemer
which i dont see, I have a green beryl crystal and the compizconfig settings manager,

any help or tutorials?

thanks
Ha, never mind ... it is the green crystal to use LOL
does the themse set up the same as they do in beryl?

thanks

[DraeLee]

well since I got fed up with x86_64 not being supported on a lot of things I reinstalled using i386 version. DId the install instructions here and it installed flawlessly :D yessir. And I must say it does look really really good. When support for 64bit becomes a little bit more stable Ill use it instead. I just get tired of forcing 64bit on 32bit apps. I am fooling with this now thanks again for the guide simple and straight to the point.



What green crystal I dont see that??

[kystorms]

system>preferences>green crystal

is it in the wrong place or not supposed to be there/?
I would not be surprised, i always manage to screw something up!

:-)
also, in beryl you can make the skydome just by pointing to a graphic in a file, is the same true for this cube set up as well?

[DraeLee]

system>preferences>green crystal

is it in the wrong place or not supposed to be there/?
I would not be surprised, i always manage to screw something up!

:-)
also, in beryl you can make the skydome just by pointing to a graphic in a file, is the same true for this cube set up as well?

Well i see the compiz settings manager but its not a green diamond for me. as far as the skydome the only way I know to do it is ctrl+alt and move the mouse.

Also does anyone know what the super key is I have no clue on that one??

[nsegative]

One error I noticed: in gconf-editor the shadow_radius when you type in compiz --replace always turns to 9 and integer (where ti should be float). However if I type compiz --replace gconf I have borders but a lot of the effects are now missing and wont activate.

[robio376]

Got everything working! But I don't have a theme manager except for the default one. How do I install the emerald theme manger. This is a clean install of Ubuntu with all updates. and just followed your instructions.

[Fireblend]

The green crystal is Emerald Settings Manager, which =/= Compiz Settings
THe super key is the "WIndows" key near the ctrl/alt keys.

Edit:

To Install emerald theme manager,

sudo apt-get install emerald emerald-themes

should work.

[DraeLee]

well dont I feel slooooow. thank you for the reply now I can try something ;-)



Ok got a question though. I installed the emerald theme manager and I clicked a theme that I like but it did not change anything. Now in beryl I know you could just click the one you like and it would change it. Is there a different path to this on fusion.??

[flankker]

(ignore, i fixed it)

[yinglcs2]

If I already have beryl installed on my Ubuntu 7.0.4, what do I need to do to install compiz fusion?

[llamakc]

If I already have beryl installed on my Ubuntu 7.0.4, what do I need to do to install compiz fusion?

Follow the instructions on page 1 of this thread. Worked perfectly for me.

[DraeLee]

does anyone know how to get the themes to work properly??

[maplekandalf]

Hi,
I am currently a beryl user, but my knowledge of linux is limited. How would I remove beryl before starting this guide? (I have the svn)

[DraeLee]

i believe its sudo apt-get remove beryl

i think

[trinaryouroboros]

I was hoping to compile my own how-to but you beat me to the punch. Not only have I utterly failed to get Compiz Fusion set up, but, I can't even install compiz itself!

I am running Beryl presently, happily, yet, I wanted to see the new Compiz Fusion.

When I follow instructions and get to sudo apt-get install compiz, I get the following:

ouroboros@w0-rm-h0-l3-ff:~$ sudo apt-get install compiz
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
compiz: Depends: compiz-decorator but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
ouroboros@w0-rm-h0-l3-ff:~$

Been cracking at this for a couple days now with no luck.

I'm using 64-bit Feisty Fawn, any ideas?

I tried getting compiz-decorator-gtk and extracted the RPM...no dice!

I also tried getting the compiz deb file straight from tr3vin0s thing, no good, same odd "uninstallable" compiz-decorator.

:(

I've scoured the web, and am kinda surprised no one has got this error message before...maybe I'm just a damn fool here or something.

Edit: Beryl has to be removed first? Is that what's causing the compiz-decorator glitch??

[Hawk__0]

I dont understand.. lol.. i did it all, is it supposed to run w/o beryl showing on my "system tray"?
I was running beryl, i exited after switching to metacity when i followed this tutorial. i opened up beryl and it worked'n all. none of the settings i configured in the compiz thinger worked though. how do i open "compiz fusion" or is opening beryl supposed to be what i do? i downloaded some updates and stuff too..

[Fireblend]

I dont understand.. lol.. i did it all, is it supposed to run w/o beryl showing on my "system tray"?
I was running beryl, i exited after switching to metacity when i followed this tutorial. i opened up beryl and it worked'n all. none of the settings i configured in the compiz thinger worked though. how do i open "compiz fusion" or is opening beryl supposed to be what i do? i downloaded some updates and stuff too..

No, beryl is something else, independent from fusion. there's no icon on the notifications bar for fusion. Close that and run compiz --replace with alt+f2, then it should work. To access to Fusion's settings, run ccsm on alt+f2 or Compiz Setting Manager under System->Preferences :p

[AlexC_]

Hum, I can't get this to work. I currently run Beryl on AIGLX with an nVidia - however, after following your guide and doing compiz --replace the window manager flashes on an off, then back to metacity.

If I do it in the terminal, I get this:

alex@alex-ubuntu:~$ compiz --replace
Adding plugin move (move)
Adding plugin wobbly (wobbly)
Adding plugin snow (snow)
Adding plugin inotify (inotify)
Adding plugin opacify (opacify)
Adding plugin regex (regex)
Adding plugin water (water)
Adding plugin fakeargb (fakeargb)
Adding plugin annotate (annotate)
Adding plugin scale (scale)
Adding plugin showdesktop (showdesktop)
Adding plugin tile (tile)
Adding plugin place (place)
Adding plugin neg (neg)
Adding plugin text (text)
Adding plugin switcher (switcher)
Adding plugin animation (animation)
Adding plugin winrules (winrules)
Adding plugin plane (plane)
Adding plugin cubereflex (cubereflex)
Adding plugin clone (clone)
Adding plugin bench (bench)
Adding plugin thumbnail (thumbnail)
Adding plugin ring (ring)
Adding plugin video (video)
Adding plugin trailfocus (trailfocus)
Adding plugin imgjpeg (imgjpeg)
Adding plugin mblur (mblur)
Adding plugin snap (snap)
Adding plugin svg (svg)
Adding plugin resizeinfo (resizeinfo)
Adding plugin resize (resize)
Adding plugin group (group)
Adding plugin crashhandler (crashhandler)
Adding plugin screenshot (screenshot)
Adding plugin scaleaddon (scaleaddon)
Adding plugin vpswitch (vpswitch)
Adding plugin fade (fade)
Adding plugin put (put)
Adding plugin fadedesktop (fadedesktop)
Adding plugin firepaint (firepaint)
Adding plugin png (png)
Adding plugin decoration (decoration)
Adding core settings (General Options)
Adding plugin blur (blur)
Adding plugin dbus (dbus)
Adding plugin extrawm (extrawm)
Adding plugin splash (splash)
Adding plugin cube (cube)
Adding plugin rotate (rotate)
Adding plugin wall (wall)
Adding plugin fs (fs)
Adding plugin minimize (minimize)
Adding plugin glib (glib)
Adding plugin reflex (reflex)
Adding plugin zoom (zoom)
Adding plugin addhelper (addhelper)
Adding plugin expo (expo)
Backend : gconf
Integration : true
Profile : default
Initializing core options...done
Initializing move options...done
Initializing place options...done
Initializing resize options...done
/usr/bin/compiz: line 681: 12466 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $@
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "toggle_shaded"

[AlexC_]

nevermind! Fixed! Beryl was conflicting with it, after removing beryl ( sudo apt-get remove --purge beryl emerald emerald-themes ) it all works!

[dorath]

I was also having problems with the window borders dissapearing. What worked for me was to ctrl+alt+backspace, then alt+F2: compiz --replace

After that, it's worked like a charm! Fun stuff :D

Kudos to the people behind this super-spiffy project!

[Hawk__0]

I enabled skydome, animated it and put on an image. the image is replaced by the default gradiant, and i removed the end caps... which are still there...?


also inside cube doesnt zoom like it used to :(

[DraeLee]

im fooling with the skydomes now and it only has the default Im not sure what I am doing wrong here any help???

[bazooze28]

can someone please help me? im a noob at ubuntu

im going to try to install compiz fusion tonight because im not on my computer right now. but i am having trouble with the 4 desktops/wokspaces in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. When i first installed ubuntu, the workspaces worked fine. then i installed beryl, had fun with it, and later removed it. now the first workspace works fine. but when i click in the second, third, or fourth workspace, i just see a blank scree. all i see is my wallpaper, no toolbars on the top and bottom of the screen, and no mouse. the only way i get back to the first desktop is using control-alt-left.

Then if i go to the special effects option and put "disable cube" it works and i can go to all the workspaces. however, i can not have different programs in each of the workspace. Say, for example, i have firefox open in the first workspace, and i click on the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, it is also in those workspace too. i just want it open in 1 workspace.

can someone tell me how go back to the default settings for the workspaces that came with ubuntu. this way, when i try to install compiz fusion tonight, it will have a better chance of working.

thanks in advance

[cumanzor]

Hi, I installed following this instructions and from the compcomm site. (Treviño's post)

Anyways, it doesn't work for me, segmentation fault :(

manuel@desktop:~$ compiz --replace

(emerald:8652): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_unref: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed

(emerald:8652): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)

(emerald:8652): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)

(emerald:8652): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)

(emerald:8652): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)

(emerald:8652): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)

(emerald:8652): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)

(emerald:8652): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)

(emerald:8652): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)

(emerald:8652): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)

(emerald:8652): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)
Adding plugin scale (scale)
Adding plugin extrawm (extrawm)
Adding plugin clone (clone)
Adding plugin scaleaddon (scaleaddon)
Adding plugin plane (plane)
Adding plugin thumbnail (thumbnail)
Adding plugin dbus (dbus)
Adding plugin mblur (mblur)
Adding plugin trailfocus (trailfocus)
Adding plugin video (video)
Adding plugin snap (snap)
Adding plugin bench (bench)
Adding plugin text (text)
Adding plugin neg (neg)
Adding plugin tile (tile)
Adding plugin firepaint (firepaint)
Adding plugin imgjpeg (imgjpeg)
Adding plugin crashhandler (crashhandler)
Adding plugin rotate (rotate)
Adding plugin wobbly (wobbly)
Adding plugin png (png)
Adding plugin splash (splash)
Adding plugin fakeargb (fakeargb)
Adding plugin resizeinfo (resizeinfo)
Adding plugin annotate (annotate)
Adding plugin snow (snow)
Adding plugin switcher (switcher)
Adding plugin addhelper (addhelper)
Adding plugin water (water)
Adding plugin fadedesktop (fadedesktop)
Adding plugin cube (cube)
Adding plugin move (move)
Adding plugin glib (glib)
Adding plugin regex (regex)
Adding plugin svg (svg)
Adding plugin reflex (reflex)
Adding plugin cubereflex (cubereflex)
Adding plugin fs (fs)
Adding plugin blur (blur)
Adding plugin group (group)
Adding plugin inotify (inotify)
Adding plugin minimize (minimize)
Adding plugin wall (wall)
Adding plugin showdesktop (showdesktop)
Adding plugin decoration (decoration)
Adding plugin resize (resize)
Adding plugin screenshot (screenshot)
Adding plugin expo (expo)
Adding plugin winrules (winrules)
Adding core settings (General Options)
Adding plugin put (put)
Adding plugin opacify (opacify)
Adding plugin place (place)
Adding plugin fade (fade)
Adding plugin zoom (zoom)
Adding plugin ring (ring)
Adding plugin animation (animation)
Adding plugin vpswitch (vpswitch)
Backend : ini
Integration : true
Profile : default
Initializing core options...done
Initializing imgjpeg options...done
Initializing move options...done
Initializing svg options...done
Initializing minimize options...done
/usr/bin/compiz: line 681: 8852 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $@
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "toggle_shaded"

[Voodooengine]

I'm getting this error. :)

ravi@ravi:~$ compiz --replace
Fatal: Failed test: texture_from_pixmap support
Checks indicate that it's impossible to start compiz on your system.

I followed your original post, and everything ran fine. I guess it just won't start.. I'm running a ATI x1600 so thats most likely why.

[llamakc]

Hey, what's the key-combo to get the Desktop Wall to work?

[pedalwrench]

Hey, what's the key-combo to get the Desktop Wall to work?

usually ctrl+alt+ a arrow key

by the way works good, intel I910 :p

edit: i am lovin' the expo thing!!

By the way anyone know how to make the cube switch on the mouse scroll wheel?

[Hawk__0]

"super key" for me thats the windows key. thats odd. lol.

ummm anybody else notice some of beryls effects are missing? maybe im retarded, but i cant find the pop up 3d windows, i cant zoom out from inside cube, and if i delete the end cap images from the settings, they still show up (i liek no end caps... transparent).

also, while rotating, its a lot different than beryl, i liked the way old beryl rotated.

[Danman3459]

I got it to work by adding

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

To the Section "Screen" part of Xorg.conf

Works great ...

P.S. I got this from http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-386025.html

[klato]

Cool, got it working over here. Thanks!

[smartboyathome]

There is a new version of Compiz Fusion in the repo that supports transparency. Just set the color of your caps and everything to completely transparent. Then it will appear to have no caps.

[pt123]

Can this be installled while having Beryl installed (i.e I am not planning to run them together but switch). It is just that I have heard some of the features in Beryl have not been ported over like:
When using the scroll of the mouse on the desktop the cube doesn't rotate.
Also the snow efect ( I am a sucker for it)

[Fireblend]

Can this be installled while having Beryl installed (i.e I am not planning to run them together but switch). It is just that I have heard some of the features in Beryl have not been ported over like:
When using the scroll of the mouse on the desktop the cube doesn't rotate.
Also the snow efect ( I am a sucker for it)

Yes, you can have them both without one interfering with the other.
Oh and there is a snow effect in Fusion :p

[smartboyathome]

you need to change these in the control panel. to get it, type (in a terminal) "ccsm" (without quotes)

[sparq-l]

I am also a n00b, but I seem to be getting held up very early in this process. I'm unable to download the repositories.

I'm getting a 404 on both of them.

Anyone else having this issue, or have an suggestions on how to fix it?

[DarkN00b]

Everything worked fine here. My i855 graphics chipset isn't even breaking a sweat. :D Eat that, Vista.

The only issue I have is that I cannot set the bottom cap pic. I have my skydome and top cap working just fine, but that bottom cap just won't appear.

I really like the cube reflection and I know I would like the group window plugin if I could figure out how to get it to work. Also where's that dodge effect at? I likes it. :D

[pt123]

Yes, you can have them both without one interfering with the other.
Oh and there is a snow effect in Fusion :p

Cool thanks so should I disable Beryl & Beryl-Manager from the Preferences->Sessions->Start up programs

before trying to install this?

[Fireblend]

Cool thanks so should I disable Beryl & Beryl-Manager from the Preferences->Sessions->Start up programs

before trying to install this?

Well, I wouldn't change anything until I'm sure fusion works. Remove those and add the fusion commands if it works out.

[Darganot]

Personally, I was missing window boarders after following your walkthrough (I'm running the Linux Mint Cassandra, which had beryl pre-installed... I had the same problem with that I was hoping fusion would fix it). Well, it didn't, and after trying several different things in this thread, here is what personally worked for me (with a GeForce 4):


sudo apt-get remove --purge beryl emerald emerald-themes

edit xorg.conf (gnome)
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
add this under section "screen":
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

Also make sure to add an entry under sessions for "compiz --replace". Now restart your system:

sudo reboot

Once I had all these ducks in order I finally had my window boarders back plus neato effects. I know what I'll be doing today...

:popcorn: Thanks :D

[Hawk__0]

I set it, but they still show white AND transparent depending on the angle.

anybody find (if in existence) the feature for 3d pop out windows?
i had it on beryl but i cant seem to find it in fusion

[aldenhg]

The link to the douge plugin is down due to a database error. Anyone have a mirror or a tarball they can thoss up for those of us who are a little late to the party?

[milot]

I have a problem when I run compiz --replace:


milot@QuickWhite:~$ compiz --replace
Adding plugin put (put)
Adding plugin png (png)
Adding plugin fs (fs)
Adding plugin wall (wall)
Adding plugin inotify (inotify)
Adding plugin vpswitch (vpswitch)
Adding plugin tile (tile)
Adding plugin opacify (opacify)
Adding plugin trailfocus (trailfocus)
Adding plugin bench (bench)
Adding plugin winrules (winrules)
Adding plugin zoom (zoom)
Adding plugin rotate (rotate)
Adding core settings (General Options)
Adding plugin fakeargb (fakeargb)
Adding plugin blur (blur)
Adding plugin water (water)
Adding plugin snap (snap)
Adding plugin neg (neg)
Adding plugin resize (resize)
Adding plugin fadedesktop (fadedesktop)
Adding plugin wobbly (wobbly)
Adding plugin dbus (dbus)
Adding plugin cubereflex (cubereflex)
Adding plugin splash (splash)
Adding plugin plane (plane)
Adding plugin scale (scale)
Adding plugin video (video)
Adding plugin showdesktop (showdesktop)
Adding plugin expo (expo)
Adding plugin annotate (annotate)
Adding plugin switcher (switcher)
Adding plugin fade (fade)
Adding plugin firepaint (firepaint)
Adding plugin glib (glib)
Adding plugin decoration (decoration)
Adding plugin minimize (minimize)
Adding plugin imgjpeg (imgjpeg)
Adding plugin text (text)
Adding plugin screenshot (screenshot)
Adding plugin addhelper (addhelper)
Adding plugin thumbnail (thumbnail)
Adding plugin crashhandler (crashhandler)
Adding plugin clone (clone)
Adding plugin move (move)
Adding plugin animation (animation)
Adding plugin group (group)
Adding plugin scaleaddon (scaleaddon)
Adding plugin reflex (reflex)
Adding plugin cube (cube)
Adding plugin svg (svg)
Adding plugin regex (regex)
Adding plugin place (place)
Adding plugin snow (snow)
Adding plugin mblur (mblur)
Adding plugin resizeinfo (resizeinfo)
Adding plugin extrawm (extrawm)
Adding plugin ring (ring)
Backend : ini
Integration : true
Profile : default
Initializing core options...done
Initializing zoom options...done
Initializing resize options...done
/usr/bin/compiz.real: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/compiz/libdecoration.so: undefined symbol: decor_apply_gravity
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "toggle_shaded"


I removed beryl successfully but I cannot setup compiz.

[Fireblend]

I have a problem when I run compiz --replace:


milot@QuickWhite:~$ compiz --replace
Adding plugin put (put)
Adding plugin png (png)
Adding plugin fs (fs)
Adding plugin wall (wall)
Adding plugin inotify (inotify)
Adding plugin vpswitch (vpswitch)
Adding plugin tile (tile)
Adding plugin opacify (opacify)
Adding plugin trailfocus (trailfocus)
Adding plugin bench (bench)
Adding plugin winrules (winrules)
Adding plugin zoom (zoom)
Adding plugin rotate (rotate)
Adding core settings (General Options)
Adding plugin fakeargb (fakeargb)
Adding plugin blur (blur)
Adding plugin water (water)
Adding plugin snap (snap)
Adding plugin neg (neg)
Adding plugin resize (resize)
Adding plugin fadedesktop (fadedesktop)
Adding plugin wobbly (wobbly)
Adding plugin dbus (dbus)
Adding plugin cubereflex (cubereflex)
Adding plugin splash (splash)
Adding plugin plane (plane)
Adding plugin scale (scale)
Adding plugin video (video)
Adding plugin showdesktop (showdesktop)
Adding plugin expo (expo)
Adding plugin annotate (annotate)
Adding plugin switcher (switcher)
Adding plugin fade (fade)
Adding plugin firepaint (firepaint)
Adding plugin glib (glib)
Adding plugin decoration (decoration)
Adding plugin minimize (minimize)
Adding plugin imgjpeg (imgjpeg)
Adding plugin text (text)
Adding plugin screenshot (screenshot)
Adding plugin addhelper (addhelper)
Adding plugin thumbnail (thumbnail)
Adding plugin crashhandler (crashhandler)
Adding plugin clone (clone)
Adding plugin move (move)
Adding plugin animation (animation)
Adding plugin group (group)
Adding plugin scaleaddon (scaleaddon)
Adding plugin reflex (reflex)
Adding plugin cube (cube)
Adding plugin svg (svg)
Adding plugin regex (regex)
Adding plugin place (place)
Adding plugin snow (snow)
Adding plugin mblur (mblur)
Adding plugin resizeinfo (resizeinfo)
Adding plugin extrawm (extrawm)
Adding plugin ring (ring)
Backend : ini
Integration : true
Profile : default
Initializing core options...done
Initializing zoom options...done
Initializing resize options...done
/usr/bin/compiz.real: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/compiz/libdecoration.so: undefined symbol: decor_apply_gravity
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "toggle_shaded"


I removed beryl successfully but I cannot setup compiz.

Try adding compiz --replace and emerald --replace & to the session startup commands and restart the gui with ctrl+alt+backspace.

[devonj]

Does anyone know why when compiz is install it pushes the screen over. When I run compiz the screen resizes and shifts everything to the left.

Computer: Thinkpad T40
Graphics Card: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)

The white space on the side of the attached pic is the problem that am having

[cumanzor]

Compiz forums are down. Can anyone give me a link to the douge plug in?

[Schnare]

will compiz work on a radeon 9600 pro?

[Vorian]

will compiz work on a radeon 9600 pro?Can you run Beryl or Compiz (desktop effects) now?

If so, yes :)

[Schnare]

The desktop effects that come with feisty work fine but i keep getting "Fatal: Failed test: texture_from_pixmap support
Checks indicate that it's impossible to start compiz on your system" when I try to do the compiz - replace thing

[DrTsus]

I'm very new to linux, so I'm probably doing soemthing dumb, but I've followed the directions, but I get this.... sorry it's long

brandon@brandons-computer:~$ sudo apt-get remove compiz-core desktop-effects sudo apt-get install compiz # compiz-gnome AND/OR compiz-kde sudop apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager # compizconfig-backends-* ?! sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package apt-get
brandon@brandons-computer:~$ sudo apt-get remove compiz-core desktop-effects
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
compiz-gnome
The following packages will be REMOVED:
compiz compiz-core compiz-gtk compiz-plugins desktop-effects
The following packages will be upgraded:
compiz-gnome
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 165kB of archives.
After unpacking 2372kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Abort.
brandon@brandons-computer:~$

[DAaaMan64]

Another 64bit user with errors, would like some help! :)

daaaman64@govinda:~$ sudo apt-get install compiz compiz-kde
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
compiz: Depends: compiz-decorator but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

[smartboyathome]

64 bit doesn't work yet... :-\

[hellfried]

i already have beryl installed in feisty. can i just follow the steps outlined if i want to upgrade to fusion?

[Fireblend]

i already have beryl installed in feisty. can i just follow the steps outlined if i want to upgrade to fusion?

Yes.

[Treviño]

Many thanks for posting this guide with my packages ;)

I was thinking to include doodge in my repo too, or maybe manage it in move itself... I'll let you know!

I can't follow all the threads about this, so for latest news check always the opencompositing and compiz forum threads

[Hawk__0]

I'm very new to linux, so I'm probably doing soemthing dumb, but I've followed the directions, but I get this.... sorry it's long

brandon@brandons-computer:~$ sudo apt-get remove compiz-core desktop-effects sudo apt-get install compiz # compiz-gnome AND/OR compiz-kde sudop apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager # compizconfig-backends-* ?! sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package apt-get
brandon@brandons-computer:~$ sudo apt-get remove compiz-core desktop-effects
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
compiz-gnome
The following packages will be REMOVED:
compiz compiz-core compiz-gtk compiz-plugins desktop-effects
The following packages will be upgraded:
compiz-gnome
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 165kB of archives.
After unpacking 2372kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Abort.
brandon@brandons-computer:~$




seems odd. I've just always done lower case "y". try that.


anybody know how to change the window manager back to gnome? im tryna play some games in cedega and i cant really cuz i get lots of weird problems haah. in beryl i could jsut right click it and change it

[hatchetjuggla]

metacity --replace should do it

[Hawk__0]

thanks :D it worked

[Fireblend]

Many thanks for posting this guide with my packages ;)

I was thinking to include doodge in my repo too, or maybe manage it in move itself... I'll let you know!

I can't follow all the threads about this, so for latest news check always the opencompositing and compiz forum threads

Thanks! And also thanks to you for making Ubuntu users' life oh so much simpler! :D Who doesn't love your repo after all?

Including the douge plugin would be really good, I know of at least a couple of people that have encountered the same issue as I have and it's always great to have options that don't involve making and installing packages, after all this shouldn't be restricted to advanced users; who likes waiting ages for easy installing methods to fix things that can be fixed as easily as that? Although your repo does make things much simpler. Keep up the brilliant work!

[michaelzap]

Anyone else have problems getting cube cap images to show up? Better yet, anyone figure out how to fix it?

I just got a number of compiz and beryl updates via the update manager. they included some fusion plugins and whatnot. Wondering what this means...

Compiz and Emerald together are using less than 20MB of RAM on my system, and all this eye candy doesn't seem to slow down anything at all as far as I've noticed.

[hellfried]

Yes.

great stuff! i already have it up and running thanks to u! i have always had problems with changing the theme using emerald theme manager. after selecting the desired one, it does not take. in fusion is there another way of doing it?

[Fireblend]

great stuff! i already have it up and running thanks to u! i have always had problems with changing the theme using emerald theme manager. after selecting the desired one, it does not take. in fusion is there another way of doing it?

Glad to know I was of help! You should try entering emerald --replace & to make the emerald theme reload (use alt+f2).

[pt123]

Cool it is working fine but the snow plugin is just producing squares falling down.

Also beryl had a beryl manager which would let me switch back to metacity, for like watching videos or criticals tasks i.e. don't want the computer crash.

Does compiz-fusion have something similar, like an icon in the notification area?

[Fireblend]

Cool it is working fine but the snow plugin is just producing squares falling down.

Also beryl had a beryl manager which would let me switch back to metacity, for like watching videos or criticals tasks i.e. don't want the computer crash.

Does compiz-fusion have something similar, like an icon in the notification area?

The different snow effect is because Beryl had a default picture for snow and is this one you have to set it up... And there's no notification area icon, but you can create a launcher with the command metacity --replace that basically does the same thing as selecting metacity in the Beryl icon :D

[hellfried]

Glad to know I was of help! You should try entering emerald --replace & to make the emerald theme reload (use alt+f2).

ok doing that actually changes the default theme but its a crap shoot. sometime nothing happens and on occasion the new theme takes but all the buttons disappear.

[Hawk__0]

in 1 video i see the guy flip his windows around in 3d, where is that option?

[redmonster13]

Ok, I got ubuntu installed on a dual boot setup and got compiz fusion installed. Keep in mind this is my first time at linux period. Now my problem is I can only see a small portion of the screen in the top left corner with compiz running. Everything is fine with metacity running though.

I can navigate to a small degree in compiz but it is maddening.

I also cant seem to change my display to 1280x1024 (yes that is how this problem started) I have tried undoing everything I did while trying to change my res.

any thoughts? (besides, this guy is a moron)

[DarkN00b]

Well, I figured out (finally) that dodge is an animation that can be applied to windows being focussed. I can be so slow sometimes. http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/1662/doh4jw.gif

Now could someone point me to a page that explains the grouping/tabbing plugin? LOL

[pt123]

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Window_Grouper

Redmonster post a screenshot, amazed that you install Linux after seeing this.

[redmonster13]

I will have to do a full reinstall, I tried to update the video driver and killed unbuntu. I will reinstall it in the morning and put compiz back on. This is just to cool to passup :)

If I end up in the same situation I will post some screenshots.

I think this time I will leave the damn video drivers alone and just deal with 1024x780 (or whatever it defaults to)

I wanted to mess with linux for a while now just never got around to it.

[DarkN00b]

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Window_Grouper

Redmonster post a screenshot, amazed that you install Linux after seeing this.

Yeehaw! Thank you. I got it working now. For those who want to know:

1. Click the first window you want to group and press Super+s.
2. Click on the second window you want to group and press Super+s.
3. Continue doing this until you have selected all the windows you want to group.
4. Press Super+g to group the windows. Now you can move/minimize/maximize the windows together.

Now it gets cool. For that nifty rotating window thing, you need to select your windows (with Super+s) and then tab them together by pressing Super+t. After you have done that, just hover your mouse cursor over the window titlebar and you'll see some thumbnails. Click them to rotate the window to the one you want.

[ivesjd]

I can't get compiz fusion to run on start-up correctly. When I reboot with "compiz --replace" in the session/start-up thing, none of my other default startup programs start, and nothing seems to work right. I installed Gnome Compiz Manager so I can switch back to Meta city, but nothing is started the right way. And if at anypoint I restart X, it just crashes and reboots. I don't want to have to boot into meta city everytime and then switch to fusion, but if thats what I have to do....
I was running beryl before this, I removed all of beryl (including emerald) because I was having problems with fusion(which it fixed). Then I rebooted and am stuck in this rut. Any help from anyone would be great.

[pt123]

I will have to do a full reinstall, I tried to update the video driver and killed unbuntu. I will reinstall it in the morning and put compiz back on. This is just to cool to passup :)
.

Noooooo :)

Your installation is not screwed it's just your xorg.conf (video configuration file) file is, when you probably tried to upgrade your video drivers.

What video card do you have?

[pt123]

I removed all of beryl (including emerald) because I was having problems with fusion(which it fixed). Then I rebooted and am stuck in this rut. Any help from anyone would be great.

Did you reinstall emerald because Compiz fusion needs it.

[ivesjd]

No, but it was working fine, but now Ubuntu won't boot at all. But Im gonna jump at it again tomorrow. Hopefully I can get it working without having to reinstall fiesty. I'll try installing emerald from the recovery boot. See if that helps.

[BobCFC]

I'm very new to linux, so I'm probably doing soemthing dumb, but I've followed the directions, but I get this.... sorry it's long

brandon@brandons-computer:~$ sudo apt-get remove compiz-core desktop-effects sudo apt-get install compiz # compiz-gnome AND/OR compiz-kde sudop apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager # compizconfig-backends-* ?! sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package apt-get
brandon@brandons-computer:~$ sudo apt-get remove compiz-core desktop-effects
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
compiz-gnome
The following packages will be REMOVED:
compiz compiz-core compiz-gtk compiz-plugins desktop-effects
The following packages will be upgraded:
compiz-gnome
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 165kB of archives.
After unpacking 2372kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Abort.
brandon@brandons-computer:~$




you are trying to do 4 commands at once on that big long line... break it up in to separate pieces and do one after the other pressing enter each time:

sudo apt-get remove compiz-core desktop-effects
sudo apt-get install compiz compiz-gnome
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-*

[pt123]

No, but it was working fine, but now Ubuntu won't boot at all. But Im gonna jump at it again tomorrow. Hopefully I can get it working without having to reinstall fiesty. I'll try installing emerald from the recovery boot. See if that helps.

What do you mean by not boot up at which specific point does it stop.

[ajmorris]

the ones in the gutsy repos don't work properly:(.... and if i use the feisty ones from tuxfamily it doesn't work at all :( will, have to wait till the ones in gutsy are fixed.

[trinaryouroboros]

Another 64bit user with errors, would like some help! :)

daaaman64@govinda:~$ sudo apt-get install compiz compiz-kde
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
compiz: Depends: compiz-decorator but it is not installable
E: Broken packages



Are you freaking kidding me? C'mon, someone has a clue on this problem!

I uninstalled beryl and everything, this is day four now of troubleshooting compiz-decorator, what gives?

[webosb]

user@pc1:~$ compiz --replace
Fatal: Failed test: texture_from_pixmap support
Checks indicate that it's impossible to start compiz on your system.
user@pc1:~$


can someone help?

[Hawk__0]

I can't get compiz fusion to run on start-up correctly. When I reboot with "compiz --replace" in the session/start-up thing, none of my other default startup programs start, and nothing seems to work right. I installed Gnome Compiz Manager so I can switch back to Meta city, but nothing is started the right way. And if at anypoint I restart X, it just crashes and reboots. I don't want to have to boot into meta city everytime and then switch to fusion, but if thats what I have to do....
I was running beryl before this, I removed all of beryl (including emerald) because I was having problems with fusion(which it fixed). Then I rebooted and am stuck in this rut. Any help from anyone would be great.

Im not sure how you added your automatic launch on boot stuff, but ensure the stuff that is NOT booting is check marked in: system->preferences->session

I didnt uninstall beryl, I just unchecked it from there so it wouldnt start, then i added 2 lines to load emerald and compiz fusion.:

add 1 line called Emerald (or what you prefer it to be called), and put this in the command part of the box:
emerald --replace &
then click ok and make a new one for compiz fusion:
compiz --replace

after that.. it should all work correctly, you may have to restart your computer, or input both of those commands by hitting alt+F2 (that will just load for the current session, not all.)

I went from beryl to this with no problems, i just pretty much switched my window manager to metacity, clocsed beryl, and then did that stuff up there.

good luck

[tbob18]

Thanks, almost everything seems to be working perfectly.
The window boarders seemed to just randomly start working, they did not work when I first installed it, and they did not even show up under beryl.

Another problem that mysteriously disappeared is when I would try to go full screen with video the player would just crash (using totem, mplayer, smplayer or VLC).
I also had this problem in Beryl, but it seems to be working fine now.

One problem I am having is when I drag windows around it makes them semi-transparent using up too much CPU (~20%) compared to the 2-3% beryl uses.
Anyone have a link to the douge plugin? That forum seems to be down.

The last problem is when I open a lot of windows, some of them start turning black..
I also had this problem in Beryl, not sure what the cause is.

Has anyone got this working right on Dual screens yet? If I enable my second output, it either goes very, very slow, or just crashes.
This worked pretty good on beryl but ran a little slow.

Some specs (if that will help anything):
Athlon XP 3200+
Abit NF7-S 2.0
MSI Geforce 6600gt
2048x1536 @ 75hz
Ubuntu 7.04 (latest updates and all that)

The rest should not matter.

Thanks.

Edit: Oh yeah, does Compiz Fusion have 3D effects where the windows popped out of the cube? I liked that effect.

Edit: Another thing, when using the Zoom desktop I can't click or use anything, in beryl you could. Maybe this will get addressed later.

[mustali]

Thanks for the simple HOWTO. Everything worked perfectly after a reboot.

I'm blown away by the effects and the lean resource management.

Now I am gonna go back for a moment and enjoy the gentle snow fall on my desktop... :)

[buttons]

Still missing the link to the bouge plugin (hate those jerky wobbly windows!)

Anyone post up a copy?

EDIT: Nevermind. Current bouge plugin is here (http://hibbert.univ-lille3.fr/~cbellegarde/Compiz/bouge.tar.gz).

[ivesjd]

As of right now I dont get a desktop. It boots to the login screen, and then I can login. But once it starts loading the screen goes black with only my cursor.

[CheeseEatingBulldog]

I used google to get the cache of that page, the links to the plugins are:

http://hibbert.univ-lille3.fr/~cbellegarde/Compiz/bouge.tar.gz
http://hibbert.univ-lille3.fr/~cbellegarde/Compiz/resize.tar.gz

[DrTsus]

How do I start emerald at startup. When I type emerald --replace & in the terminal I get errors, so I don't want to get errors on startup if I put it in sessions like that. It does work in the Alt + F2 thing.

[ivesjd]

Okay, I can boot and and get a normal login screen, then the ubuntu loading thing comes up, and it goes to a black screen with my cursor. Then restart X and it loads, but I get an error saying "I've detected a panel already running and will now exit" so I dont get my top and bottom panels. (With the clock etc.) Im at a loss of what to do.

[DraeLee]

Hmmm got a question. oddly enough emerald --replace & has my tool bars showing up which means i can choose different emerald themes which is great right?,,,,,.,

If I close the terminal then my bars disappear. Now I tested this by first checking my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make sure that the changes I needed to do were there to begin with for disappearing bars and they were. So then I entered in the command again (emerald --replace &) to reload it and it showed up. as long as i minimize that terminal and keep it open my emerald themes show up. Has anyone else had this dilema??

[Jason.TJ.Johnson]

I had to install the emerald packages from the Trevino's repository.. and that seemed to work worked

sudo apt-get install libemeraldengine0 emearld



I still miss some things from beryl like the miniview plugin.. but i guess that will all come in time

The window manager trick worked perfectly for me. Now i have borders on my windows.

One correction for anyone copying and pasting.
Emerald is spelled wrong ( a typo I'm sure )

So the command you want to post is:

sudo apt-get install libemeraldengine0 emerald

[DarkN00b]

Hmmm got a question. oddly enough emerald --replace & has my tool bars showing up which means i can choose different emerald themes which is great right?,,,,,.,

If I close the terminal then my bars disappear. Now I tested this by first checking my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make sure that the changes I needed to do were there to begin with for disappearing bars and they were. So then I entered in the command again (emerald --replace &) to reload it and it showed up. as long as i minimize that terminal and keep it open my emerald themes show up. Has anyone else had this dilema??

That's because whatever you start in a terminal window is automatically terminated when you close that terminal. Use Alt+F2, enter emerald --replace & then hit enter. Your bars will remain.

[Jason.TJ.Johnson]

Hmmm got a question. oddly enough emerald --replace & has my tool bars showing up which means i can choose different emerald themes which is great right?,,,,,.,

If I close the terminal then my bars disappear. Now I tested this by first checking my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make sure that the changes I needed to do were there to begin with for disappearing bars and they were. So then I entered in the command again (emerald --replace &) to reload it and it showed up. as long as i minimize that terminal and keep it open my emerald themes show up. Has anyone else had this dilema??

Hold on wait?
Are you typing the command into the terminal? If so, I believe closing the terminal causing the application to close..

You should just try typing it (emerald --replace &) into the run prompt.

You can pull up the run prompt by pressing ALT+F2.

[Jason.TJ.Johnson]

That's because whatever you start in a terminal window is automatically terminated when you close that terminal. Use Alt+F2, enter emerald --replace & then hit enter. Your bars will remain.

Damn beaten!
:)

[spmsrh]

I had a bit of a struggle trying to fix transparency in fullscreen from default 89 to 100, finally managed to do that by adding the rule

state=fullscreen
100

[DraeLee]

lol ok thank you that did work i forgot about the alt+f2


oops forgot :D how do u ungroup the windows, I mean like revert back to normal (just wanted to know).

[ivesjd]

Okay, so I sorta got it working. But I have to restart X every boot since it comes up to a black screen with just the cursor. But its getting more consisteint :P

[andrewsomething]

If any one is getting this error when trying Compiz-Fusion

/usr/bin/compiz.real (decoration) - Warn: Property ignored because version is 20061011 and decoration plugin version is 20070319


And Emerald wouldn't run with Compiz-Fusion (ie no window decorations). I might have the solution.

I solved the problem on my end, and now do not receive this error. Emerald and Compiz are playing nicely together.

If you are having the same problem, check what version of Emerald you are running. If were getting Emerald and Beryl from the Beryl Project repo, the version of Emerald you have will not work with Compiz-Fusion from Trevino's repo. You should use the version of Emerald in his repo. That fixed all my problems.

The easiest way to switch is probably to just delete the beryl repo from your source list altogether. That doesn't mean that you need to get rid of Beryl. Just upgrade both Emerald and Beryl using Trevino's repo. I can now switch back and forth from Beryl and Compiz-Fusion with ease, and Emerald gives me no more problems.

Hopefully that works for others getting that same error. I haven't heard this fix from else yet, but it works for me.

[ivesjd]

Is anyone else unable to put in new keyboard short cuts? Im trying to enable the ring switcher plugin and it is not letting me switch the keys to (Alt+Tab) and (Alt+Shift+Tab). I disabled these keys from all the other shortcuts I could find.

[gkiller]

I will have to do a full reinstall, I tried to update the video driver and killed unbuntu. I will reinstall it in the morning and put compiz back on. This is just to cool to passup :)

If I end up in the same situation I will post some screenshots.

I think this time I will leave the damn video drivers alone and just deal with 1024x780 (or whatever it defaults to)

I wanted to mess with linux for a while now just never got around to it.
If you have an Nvidia card, you have to enable the proprietary driver from System > Administration > Restricted Driver Manager. If your xorg.conf got messed up, you can just press Alt-F2 and type "nvidia-settings". There you can setup a basic working xorg.conf again, without having to reinstall anything.

Are you freaking kidding me? C'mon, someone has a clue on this problem!

I uninstalled beryl and everything, this is day four now of troubleshooting compiz-decorator, what gives?There is no working 64bit version of compiz/fuision in Treviños repository (yet?). I believe that is the cause of your problem.

[gkiller]

Is anyone else unable to put in new keyboard short cuts? Im trying to enable the ring switcher plugin and it is not letting me switch the keys to (Alt+Tab) and (Alt+Shift+Tab). I disabled these keys from all the other shortcuts I could find.
Just double-click on the action name and then type the hotkeys manually, eg "<Alt><Shift>Tab". The other special keys are <Control> and <Super>.

[nonameguy]

Removed my post, solved my own problem. Great tutorial, easy to work with and WOW compiz fusion is a lot more optimized than beryl. Great stuff!

[DarkN00b]

lol ok thank you that did work i forgot about the alt+f2


oops forgot :D how do u ungroup the windows, I mean like revert back to normal (just wanted to know).

Select the group of windows you want to ungroup and press Super+u.

[DraeLee]

ty very much sir

[ivesjd]

Just double-click on the action name and then type the hotkeys manually, eg "<Alt><Shift>Tab". The other special keys are <Control> and <Super>.

No, It works differntly, you have to do the keyboard shortcut you want. I can do Alt+` but I cant do alt tab like I want. Which is a standerd for window switching.

My other problems is now figured out at least. I can't boot with compiz --replace -c emerald & or compiz --replace
emerald --replace
But I can boot into metacity and then run the commands and get compiz to work. Any Ideas?

[gkiller]

No, It works differntly, you have to do the keyboard shortcut you want. I can do Alt+` but I cant do alt tab like I want. Which is a standerd for window switching.You can do it both ways, just try it. Double-click on the *name* of the action, not on any of the other columns.

I remember having the same problem for some plugins but not for all... apparently a bug.

[nonameguy]

I'm noticing everything is fast except for scroll bars.. is this a known issue, any fix?

[ticopelp]

It took quite a bit of tweaking, but I got this working. It looks amazing. I was convinced I would be sticking to Beryl for some time, but now I'm not so sure.

Thanks!

[llamakc]

I just figured out grouping. it is really sweet.

Super+S on the windows you want to select for grouping, Super+G to group them, then try Super+left/right keys. Sweet.

[bigken]

Worked for me did have the window boarder issue

I run sudo apttitude install emerald

this seemed to fix it

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=36350&stc=1&d=1182713322

[Hawk__0]

No, It works differntly, you have to do the keyboard shortcut you want. I can do Alt+` but I cant do alt tab like I want. Which is a standerd for window switching.

My other problems is now figured out at least. I can't boot with compiz --replace -c emerald & or compiz --replace
emerald --replace
But I can boot into metacity and then run the commands and get compiz to work. Any Ideas?

What ive done is go to system->preferences->session
then you can add both lines of code there. i made mine separate, including the following:
compiz --replace
emerald --replace &

[digital_exhaust]

Sorry, I'm sure that this has been asked and answered a dozen times at the least... but I've got a Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] agp card, and I can run Beryl just fine.... so I should be able to run Fusion, correct?

[Hawk__0]

im not sure if you can with a radeon card, my friend had lots of trouble with his ati card.

[llamakc]

I'm running Compiz-Fusion with zero problems on an ATI card. I'm NOT using fglrx, and using the 'radeon' driver and AIGLX.

[ivesjd]

You can do it both ways, just try it. Double-click on the *name* of the action, not on any of the other columns.

I remember having the same problem for some plugins but not for all... apparently a bug.

Ya, that worked, I never though to click on the name itself.

As for trying to get it to boot as different entrys in the startup, I've tried that as well. I've also tried adding it to rc.local (startup script) and all have failed. So Im just gonna leave it for now. It boots okay into metacity. Although I can see it switch the screen on and off a few times, and then I can just switch it. Not the best, but it works. Ive got pretty much everything working how I want. Other then not being able to replace the bottom cap. But all in all, I like it better then Beryl. Thanks everyone for helping me out. And thanks for the great how-to. :)

[DrTsus]

It seems very buggy. My mouse is bouncing all over the place. Menus will unexpectantly open. I'll be moving my mouse on the desktop and the highlight rectangle will form. The mouse will just move across screen. While I'm typing it will unselect the window. I've head each of those errors just while typing this. Help!

[redmonster13]

I was having problems, this being the first time I have installed linux, but after a few reinstalls and graphics driver problems I have Compiz Fusion running. Funny thing, I took it step by step and followed the instructions and everything works perfectly.

Thanks for the tutorial.

[ivesjd]

It seems very buggy. My mouse is bouncing all over the place. Menus will unexpectantly open. I'll be moving my mouse on the desktop and the highlight rectangle will form. The mouse will just move across screen. While I'm typing it will unselect the window. I've head each of those errors just while typing this. Help!
Are you running Ubuntu on a laptop? It sounds like your wrists are hitting the trackpad while typing. Try this thread. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=483217

[digital_exhaust]

Wow... got it running and..well, yeah..wow.

I really like this, very cool, very smooth and stable (so far;)).. so much more than Beryl...

Thanks a lot for the tutorial, worked perfect.. on my second try, after I borked my install because I wasn't paying enough attention... but the second time around it all went very well.. Thanks again!!!

[hydroPWNic]

The tutorial mostly worked for me, nice job!

I just have one question, and believe me I ask for help only as a last resort :(

I'm trying to get that bouge plugin installed because moving my windows is indeed laggy. I follow the usual procedure for installing a 'tar.gz', i change directories, i DONT './configure' because theres no configuration file, but when go to 'MAKE' the file i get this as an output:

jared@DOWNSTAIRS:~/bouge$ make; make install
[: 1: ==: unexpected operator
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
[: 1: ==: unexpected operator
install : /home/jared/.compiz/plugins/libbouge.so.so-e


no idea what to do, i googled for literally 2.5 hours. Im hoping one of yous can help me. :)

and by the way i've installed those three packages mentioned earlier:

libxslt1.1
libxslt1-dev
compiz-dev

[DrTsus]

I realized what it was. I had a wireless mouse that broke on my desk upside down so whenever the desk moved it probably fidgetted. And since it was upside down it kept clicking. I took out the batteries and everything runs FANTASTICALLY. Works much better then Beryl. No actual freezes, a few hiccups, but it works in no time.

[ivesjd]

Two questions.
1. Downloaded the bouge plugin, but have no idea what to do after I untar it.
2. What does the & sign do in emerald --replace &?

[brandon moore]

Anyone else having problems getting compiz-fusion-* to install? I keep getting this:

E: Couldn't find package compiz-fusion-*

[llamakc]

Anyone else having problems getting compiz-fusion-* to install? I keep getting this:

No, show your /etc/apt/sources.list