compiz upgrade?

[Kaneda187]

Is ther any good reason to udated my compiz to 6.2 or a later version?

[ajgreeny]

What version of ubuntu are you running? Hardy already has compiz v1:0.7.4, ie 7.4 in your manner of speaking, so I presume you must be running Gutsy and I'm afraid I don't know how easily compiz can be updated, but I bet other peoplw will be able to tell you.

[Kaneda187]

oh is it? i didnt know that! yeah im running hardy I was on the compiz website and got confused. so what version of compiz duz hardy ship with?

[ajgreeny]

Here's the list. Make of it what you will.

compiz (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compiz) (1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6)OpenGL window and compositing managercompiz-bcop (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compiz-bcop) (0.7.4-0ubuntu1)Compiz option code generatorcompiz-core (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compiz-core) (1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6)OpenGL window and compositing managercompiz-dev (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compiz-dev) (1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6)OpenGL window and compositing manager - development filescompiz-fusion-bcop (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compiz-fusion-bcop) (0.6.0-1) [universe]Compiz Fusion option code generatorcompiz-fusion-plugins-extra (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compiz-fusion-plugins-extra) (0.7.4-0ubuntu1)Collection of extra plugins from OpenCompositing for Compizcompiz-fusion-plugins-main (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compiz-fusion-plugins-main) (0.7.4-0ubuntu4)Collection of plugins from OpenCompositing for Compizcompiz-gnome (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compiz-gnome) (1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6)OpenGL window and compositing manager - GNOME window decoratorcompiz-kde (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compiz-kde) (1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6) [universe]OpenGL window and compositing manager - KDE window decoratorcompiz-plugins (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compiz-plugins) (1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6)OpenGL window and compositing manager - pluginscompizconfig-backend-gconf (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compizconfig-backend-gconf) (0.7.4-0ubuntu1)Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositing Projectcompizconfig-backend-kconfig (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compizconfig-backend-kconfig) (0.7.4-0ubuntu1) [universe]KConfig Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositing Projectcompizconfig-settings-manager (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/compizconfig-settings-manager) (0.7.4-0ubuntu2) [universe]Compiz configuration settings manager

[overdrank]

Moved :)

[billgoldberg]

You can update from 0.7.4 to 0.7.6 by using these instructions from my blog.

0.7.6 isn't 100% stable yet, so you might have a few problem. But most people don't have problem. Just letting you know.

http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/update-compiz-fusion/