dwebb86
June 28th, 2007, 11:01 PM
OK, I have an Inspiron E1505 with a Nvidia 7300.
Ordered it from Dell not too long ago with Ubuntu pre-installed so I can start to learn Linux (among other things).
I had the regular Desktop Effects going for a while, then visited these forums and found out about Compiz Fusion.
I followed all the steps in the guides to install it, and it is successfully on my computer, along with Emerald. (I see both of them on my System>Preferences menu)
My problem is I can't get Compiz to work. I can pull up the GUI for the program (CCSM) and look at or select any option I want, but nothing happens.
I've tried compiz --replace and emerald --replace separate from each other and together as compiz --replace -c emerald &
No matter how many times I put these commands in, compiz doesn't do anything.
I know my window style and fonts change, so something is happening...
and occasionally, I exit out of the command shell after entering one of those commands and it nearly freezes my screen, I can't type or change windows, and my interface screws up.
I get different errors sometimes, but just typing that last command into the shell returned these:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Converting gconf plugin list: ''Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Warn: Unknown option '-c'
........
(emerald:9555): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)
(emerald:9555): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'emerald'
Adding core settings (General Options)
..................
/usr/bin/compiz.real: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/compiz/libdecoration.so: undefined symbol: decor_apply_gravity
...................
I've searched all over forums (these ones and the compiz ones) trying to find what to do...
I hope I'm just doing something stupid and it's an easy fix, any ideas?
D Webb
Ordered it from Dell not too long ago with Ubuntu pre-installed so I can start to learn Linux (among other things).
I had the regular Desktop Effects going for a while, then visited these forums and found out about Compiz Fusion.
I followed all the steps in the guides to install it, and it is successfully on my computer, along with Emerald. (I see both of them on my System>Preferences menu)
My problem is I can't get Compiz to work. I can pull up the GUI for the program (CCSM) and look at or select any option I want, but nothing happens.
I've tried compiz --replace and emerald --replace separate from each other and together as compiz --replace -c emerald &
No matter how many times I put these commands in, compiz doesn't do anything.
I know my window style and fonts change, so something is happening...
and occasionally, I exit out of the command shell after entering one of those commands and it nearly freezes my screen, I can't type or change windows, and my interface screws up.
I get different errors sometimes, but just typing that last command into the shell returned these:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Converting gconf plugin list: ''Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Warn: Unknown option '-c'
........
(emerald:9555): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)
(emerald:9555): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'emerald'
Adding core settings (General Options)
..................
/usr/bin/compiz.real: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/compiz/libdecoration.so: undefined symbol: decor_apply_gravity
...................
I've searched all over forums (these ones and the compiz ones) trying to find what to do...
I hope I'm just doing something stupid and it's an easy fix, any ideas?
D Webb