Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by anopenscroll
There's still the problem of not being able to use the logout box with this thing going. I have an FX 5200 128 mb card. Any ideas? (yes, I know shutdown -h works but that's so blech \\:D/ )
I personally press
ctrl-atl-backspace
at the same time to logout. This problem won't get fixed til (AT THE EARLIEST) after the next Gnome release. Currently Gnome doesn't supprot all of this jazz, that creates the problem.
If the current way it works in Gnome irks you:
A. Use KDE. 3.4 does have xcompmgr support.
B. Turn it off. Its just eyecandy.
Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by anopenscroll
There's still the problem of not being able to use the logout box with this thing going. I have an FX 5200 128 mb card. Any ideas? (yes, I know shutdown -h works but that's so blech \\:D/ )
As mentioned earlier in the thread, the shutdown dialog box is hidden when logging out while xcompmgr is running. Just wait a half a second, then press Enter on your keyboard to dismiss the dialog. Then it will log out normally.
Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
I have also noticed that VLC does not start up properly. If you minimize and restore it fixes the problem,
Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by poofyhairguy
I personally press
ctrl-atl-backspace
at the same time to logout. This problem won't get fixed til (AT THE EARLIEST) after the next Gnome release. Currently Gnome doesn't supprot all of this jazz, that creates the problem.
If the current way it works in Gnome irks you:
A. Use KDE. 3.4 does have xcompmgr support.
B. Turn it off. Its just eyecandy.
Thanks for the replies. I guess I'll just wait for the next release of gnome :| before turning this back on.
Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
I've followed every step in the first post in this thread, yet xcompmgr refuses to work properly. The funniest thing is that I actually GOT IT working on my first Hoary install :???: (I reinstalled Hoary yesterday).
I've a geforce2 gts and I'm using the official nvidia driver. I don't know what the relevant parts from my xorg.conf exactly are, but maybe this gives an indication:
Code:
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
EndSection
Code:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-49
VertRefresh 43-72
DisplaySize 270 203 # 1024x768 96dpi
EndSection
Code:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
It doesn't matter it I'm typing xcompmgr -c in the CLI whithin Gnome or add it to my session (order=0). In both cases, my computer completely locks. When I add it to my session and login from gdm I get a nice splashsceen WITH shadow and then an empty desktop with one panel. And suddenly I can't do anything, no CTRL+ALT+Backspace, no CTRL+ALT+Fkey, I can't add anything to the panel and it has no buttons.
I've a picture attached (made with my digicam) so you can see how it looks like. http://img87.echo.cx/img87/3423/xcompmgr1rx.th.jpg
Oh yeah, and I've changed the font rendering from autohint to 'subpixel rendering' (although that shouldn't matter)
Anyone got a clue what's going on? Thnx!
Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Neutron, I guess you have the same problem as I had.. You can't use the shadow effects with such an old graphic card..
See these two:
My question:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=117
The answer:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=118
It works perfectly at home with a Geforce PCX 5900 ...
Another solution is to disable the RenderAccel, but then it will run god damn slow..
Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by anopenscroll
There's still the problem of not being able to use the logout box with this thing going. I have an FX 5200 128 mb card. Any ideas? (yes, I know shutdown -h works but that's so blech \\:D/ )
i have the same problem. though it works for me if i got like beep-media-player open, logout, and i'll get a dialogue saying that the beep-media-player window dosen't support "save state" something, just close it and i'm logged out.
Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrix^
Neutron, I guess you have the same problem as I had.. You can't use the shadow effects with such an old graphic card..
Another solution is to disable the RenderAccel, but then it will run god damn slow..
Cyrix, thanks for your answer. As I stated it actually worked pretty good the first time I installed Hoary :) . But since the 2nd time (reinstalled Hoary yesterday) it doesn't work anymore. I'll disable RenderAccel, and see if it helps.
/edit
Just disabled RenderAccel and it seems to work! Unfortunately it's dogslow now ;-), but it works! Thanks m8!
Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Is it possible to use xcompmgr with the binary ATI drivers?!
Code:
zer@ubuntu:~$ xcompmgr
No damage extension
I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. With the driver "ati", it works (but it is slooooow (on a 3 Ghz Machine, 1000MB RAM)
Any ideas or hints?
Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
hi, well, i can't use shadows because i'm using a gforce4 mx, and, as i've read it's because the new opengl drivers, and this is the big cuestion, what problems will i get if i install an old nvidia drivers on hoary???? :-|
