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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
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Originally Posted by Gandalf
hello,
my video card is
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device"
Driver "i810"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
do i take the risk and try this, or it will be maybe too risky?
Tried it on the above board, and shadows are useable. However if you switch on fading or transparency then X.org takes a large amount of cpu (15-30%) making the desktop too slow for my liking.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Hi all,
I have a crappy GeForce 4 MX 440 card with 128 MB ram made by some asian crap company and have had hard lockups every time i tried using the -c or -s options to xcompmgr. So by now i stick to using -fF which looks cool enough.
But i have a special scenario here. I have my computer and then my gf has a pretty crappy p-166 box that connects to my X server via XDM, so she actually uses her desktop in my machine and her comp only works as a dumb terminal. That box has a really ancient 4mb pci card or so, and i'm wondering what will happen if i turn xcompmgr on for her session too. Since i don't really understand how the X protocol works and etc, i don't know how this compositing thing is done, and would like know if her box will crash when trying to display the fadings.
Thanks!
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
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Originally Posted by okenobu
But i have a special scenario here. I have my computer and then my gf has a pretty crappy p-166 box that connects to my X server via XDM, so she actually uses her desktop in my machine and her comp only works as a dumb terminal. That box has a really ancient 4mb pci card or so, and i'm wondering what will happen if i turn xcompmgr on for her session too. Since i don't really understand how the X protocol works and etc, i don't know how this compositing thing is done, and would like know if her box will crash when trying to display the fadings.
Thanks!
The fading needs a semimodern Nvidia card to work well. Nothing else does the trick.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
To ATI owners out there who hadn't realized: composite, or at least damage, doesn't work with fglrx. You'll get a "No damage extension" error if you try. If you want to use xcompmgr you'll need to use the open source, default ATI driver that also happens to be painfully slow.
So the transparency and shadow effects look really, really cool but also make everything really, really unusable.
Here's hoping ATI keep up their Linux driver development momentum. 8.12.10 made UT2004 playable, after all, and that was an enormous improvement!
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
I have a Radeon 9550
I'm really frustrated because fglrx drivers are the only ones that works "fine" in linux with direct rendering, but on the other hand, are the only drivers that just doesn't work with composite.
I really want to make composite work, but I don't want to lose Direct Rendering so anyone here knows how to contact the fglrx team so we can explain our problem and maybe one day, they release a version with composite support?
Thanks
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
sorry, I didn't know before that fglrx drivers was the official ATI drivers, so it will be impossible to contact the development team......
:( :(
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
AMD 64 (3200+??)running 32 bit version of ubuntu with two monitors...one crt one lcd. 128mb 5200geforece FX with two vga outs. 1 gig ram.
verdict: works for the most part. I have the fade in fade out off and it all seems to work fine for me. I think it might be causing a crash when I open multiple documents in openoffice though. I'm going to have to look at the logs for that one (it kills x completely...just like a ctrl+alt+bksp).
I set up to little things on the dockbar that do .7, .5 and 1 so i can have eye candy at my fingertips.
I wish we had it like they have in enlightenment (I think?) that applies transparency to only the innactive windows
http://img239.echo.cx/img239/3163/tr...and75ih.th.png
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Hi,
I've been trying to get this working on my machine too - but have been having a bit of a 'mare! ](*,) I hope someone can help me out! :wink:
I have an AMD64 3200+ running 32-bit Hoary, 128Mb GeForce FX5200 card, 1Gb ram etc. - should be more than enough...
Whenever I try to start xcompmgr though, the screen just get's totally screwed - the mouse cursor dissaprears, the screens turn off and switch back on with loads of random shapes and patterns, and nothing works... umm, help!
I tried running xcompmgr -fF from a terminal and I got the following messages after I killed it (Ctrl+C):
Code:
error 9 request 158 minor 4 serial 1653
error 9 request 158 minor 4 serial 1660
error 9 request 158 minor 4 serial 1667
error 9 request 158 minor 4 serial 1674
error 9 request 158 minor 4 serial 1681
error 9 request 158 minor 4 serial 1688
error 9 request 158 minor 4 serial 1695
error 9 request 158 minor 4 serial 1702
Oh, and i'm on dual monitors if this makes any difference.
Anybody any ideas on this one?
Thanks in advance!
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Alright guys am I the only one with nvidia problems? It crashes as soon as I run xcompmgr if I keep RenderAccel option enabled... the mouse is moving, I can still hear music, but nothing else's there. Any suggestion?
Thx
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
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Originally Posted by imwithstupid
AMD 64 (3200+??)running 32 bit version of ubuntu with two monitors...one crt one lcd. 128mb 5200geforece FX with two vga outs. 1 gig ram.
verdict: works for the most part. I have the fade in fade out off and it all seems to work fine for me. I think it might be causing a crash when I open multiple documents in openoffice though. I'm going to have to look at the logs for that one (it kills x completely...just like a ctrl+alt+bksp).
Yeah. Its pretty unstable. I turn it off if I want to download or move files during the night. If I don't I wake up to the Ubuntu login screen.
Hopefully stablility will improve of the year!
Quote:
I wish we had it like they have in enlightenment (I think?) that applies transparency to only the innactive windows
KDE has that....
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by giorg
Alright guys am I the only one with nvidia problems? It crashes as soon as I run xcompmgr if I keep RenderAccel option enabled... the mouse is moving, I can still hear music, but nothing else's there. Any suggestion?
Thx
Drop shadows don't work with a pre FX card....
Just use fading...
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
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Originally Posted by Daz
Anybody any ideas on this one?
Sure. Mine works with that card. Compare the Xorgs and get yours to work!
Quote:
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands:
#
# cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.custom
# sudo sh -c 'md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf >/var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum'
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# paths to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection
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
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "NoLogo"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "NEC LCD1712"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Monitor "NEC LCD1712"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by poofyhairguy
Drop shadows don't work with a pre FX card....
Just use fading...
Thx a lot, only with fading it works. I tried also transset and I found it beautiful, and I asked myself if is there any why to definitely apply transset to a program (let's say gnome-terminal). It is annoying every time to call it and point with the mouse...
Thank you again
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by poofyhairguy
Sure. Mine works with that card. Compare the Xorgs and get yours to work!
Hi poofyhairguy!
Thanks for that, i've found out what the problem was... Xinerama!!! I was using xinerama to run my dual display set-up, but when I changed back to a single monitor everything worked (even gDesklets - which i've been having troubles with), so i've now switched to using Nvidia twinview to run the dual monitors, and everything works great!
Cheers!
Daz
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by MetalMusicAddict
Is there a FAQ or a guide to exlpain the arguments you can use to change options/appearances?
Like this:
"xcompmgr -cCfF -r7 -o.65 -l-10 -t-8 -D7 &"
Options
-d display Specifies which display should be managed.
-r radius Specifies the blur radius for client-side shadows. (default 12)
-o opacity Specifies the translucency for client-side shadows. (default .75)
-l left-offset Specifies the left offset for client-side shadows. (default -15)
-t top-offset Specifies the top offset for clinet-side shadows. (default -15)
-I fade-in-step Specifies the opacity change between steps while fading in. (default 0.028)
-O fade-out-step Specifies the opacity change between steps while fading out. (default 0.03)
-D fade-delta-time Specifies the time between steps in a fade in milliseconds. (default 10)
-a Use automatic server-side compositing. Faster, but no special effects.
-c Draw client-side shadows with fuzzy edges.
-C Avoid drawing shadows on dock/panel windows.
-f Fade windows in/out when opening/closing.
-F Fade windows during opacity changes.
-n Normal client-side compositing with transparency support
-s Draw server-side shadows with sharp edges.
-S Enable synchronous operation (for debugging).
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
That's beautiful mate... appriciate the HOWTO. Worked great.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Just a note to NVIDIA users: this technically isn't supported by the nvidia driver. The readme for the drivers says so, but also tells you the option to try anyways (its taken care of in the HOWTO). Theoretically this isn't stable, try running glxinfo after turning it on for a quick demonstration. For me at least, running glxgears and the ut2004 demo didn't bring up any problems, although I hear the openGL screensavers can bone things up nicely.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
I got myself in trouble. After following the "how to" I can not start my laptop anymore.
I get a blue screen like the one I hate from windows with this message:
"I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the probem?
Yes No
ubuntunotebook login:"
Can someone please help???
Thanks,
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by joplass
I got myself in trouble. After following the "how to" I can not start my laptop anymore.
I get a blue screen like the one I hate from windows with this message:
"I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the probem?
Yes No
ubuntunotebook login:"
Can someone please help???
Thanks,
sudo apt-get remove xcompmgr transset
sudo gdm
then restore your xorg.conf backup... If you dont have a backup, then create a new xorg.conf file with:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
and follow the steps :)
Good luck
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Result: sxerver not installed
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
Result: couldn't find package xserver-org
I also tried cd /cdrom
and sudo apt-get install xserver-org with the same result.
Any help will be appreciated.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Ok I fixed my problem but of course I will go back to xcmpmgr again :razz: :razz: :razz: has to work for me as well!
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Wow looks great! Running on my new computer - AMD3500, Nvidia Geforce 6800 GT etc... Gnome takes a little longer to load up but its worth it. Crashes now and then but there is great potential with this. Next stop Luminocity baby!!!!
BTW Any way to get UT2004 to work while its running?
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Geforce 4 TI cards DO support drop shadows, and I would suggest the same goes for earlier models. I'm not sure what all this "pre-directx 9" stuff has to do with it. If you can enable drop shadows and see them for even a limited time (before a crash) then obviously drop shadows are supported. Unfortunately, the current nvidia drive and xorg revisions (at least on Ubuntu) seem to be causing instability for certain cards (including my Geforce4 Ti4200). I had compositing (drop shadows) running stably on Fedora Core when it was first released back in the fall. As the programmers have fixed parts of their code, other things have gotten broken along the way. Hence, experimental.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
So I have long suspected that I lost dropshadow/compositing stability because of subsequent NVidia releases. That seems to be the case. I've been running drivers 6629 all day with shadows and fading without a crash (normally, X had been crashing within a few minutes). This is with a Geforce4 TI4200.
So anyone with a Geforce4 card (or even earlier) may want to downgrade to earlier drivers if they want the sweet eye candy...
I don't play games or run 3D or twinview/Xinerama, so I can't say how earlier drivers affect that.
All I did to install the earlier drivers is download the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run package from the archives on their website:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-6629.html
I removed the NVIDIA-GLX-7174 package using Synaptic (leaving Nvidia-settings & Kernel-nvidia-common installed) and then installed GCC and LINUX-HEADERS for my kernel. I dropped out of X to a console and installed the nvidia package:
sudo sh /.NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run
That was it. I recommend it to anyone with an NVIDIA card experiencing crashing with drop shadows.
SIDE NOTE:
I disabled the option "AllowGLXwithComposite". It was preventing me from booting into GDM.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
i've successfully done, and huge lag
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
say I added those commands to gnome boot and now I can't get back into x. How do I get them out?
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Hello,
i've follow this with kubuntu, and my gf4 ti 4200, like others it just crashed, but it works fine with only the fading.
But then, when i try a glxgears, it seems i have a loss of 50% which is a bit high i think.
I am not quite sur i will let it this way long enough ;(
(Last drivers in apt).
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Well in fact, with this i had artifacts in kplayer, and it could hang, so i stopped this fading :(
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Greetings!
GLX works fine for me when xcompmgr is running!!! Ut2004, glxgears... the lot. I think it's because i am running kubuntu, because with gnome i had the same crashing problems as described here. You GF4 users should give the new nvidia drivers a go, xcompmgr seems faster since the upgrade!
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
I installed Compositing on my ubuntu hoary folowing the HOWTO but when I go to start xcompmgr all gnome desktop Envoriment goes away: panel- icons- gdesk - applications and remains only the desktopbackground. I can move the mouse but not click because I dont have nothing to click and If I press Ctrl + Alt + Del the X serve does not restart. Some help??
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Don't know what's gone wrong for you, but one possible rescue sequence would be like this:
<ctrl>+<alt>+<F1>
This will give you a full-screen terminal session. Login, then enter
killall xcompmgr
killall gnome-panel
<ctrl>+<alt>+<F7>
This will return you to Gnome.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by jonny
Don't know what's gone wrong for you, but one possible rescue sequence would be like this:
<ctrl>+<alt>+<F1>
This will give you a full-screen terminal session. Login, then enter
killall xcompmgr
killall gnome-panel
<ctrl>+<alt>+<F7>
This will return you to Gnome.
seem to NOT work... ](*,)
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
boot in the rescue mode in grub, not the normal mode, log in as root, and do what you need to clean the mess.
(i had to do this :) )
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
I don't think I like it, and it's slowing down my computer. How should I go about uninstalling this?
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
What is the mess? Sorry for my English... ( Mess ?=? Problem )
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Originally Posted by geearf
what you need to clean the mess.
I have already apt-get remove Xcmrmgr so the problem goes away.
But if I want to run Xcmprmgr I can't? :?
What is the cause of the problem?
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
oh if you already uninstalled it then it's good IMO. :)
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Just for information, xcompmgr can generate these problems :
with Close Session window => will freeze Gnome. You must kill xcompmgr before using this window.
And also I needed to disable screensaver because screensaver can generate conflicts with xcompmgr. In my case, each time the screensaver start I was log out of my session (really boring when using amule or bittorrent !).
I hope it's helpful
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
My problem is just bigger...some help?
Quote:
I installed Compositing on my ubuntu hoary folowing the HOWTO but when I go to start xcompmgr all gnome desktop Envoriment goes away: panel- icons- gdesk - applications and remains only the desktopbackground. I can move the mouse but not click because I dont have nothing to click and If I press Ctrl + Alt + Del the X serve does not restart. Some help??
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by panickedthumb
if you have xcompmgr start up at gnome login you won't have that problem.
Ever notice though, that if you have xcompmgr start up at gnome login, and you set windows to fade in/out, the windows (not menus) fade IN but not OUT?
By the way, I've created a shell script to stop/start transparency -- You can put this on your GNOME panel to quickly kill xcompmgr before you log out, in case you're interested:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$(pidof xcompmgr)" ]
then
killall xcompmgr
else
xcompmgr -c -f
fi
This script checks to see if xcompmgr is running -- if it is, it kills it, and if it isn't, it starts it up (you can modify "xcompmgr -c -f" with any arguments you like).
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
I've got a little problem with xcompmgr, it totally halts my desktop upon starting it. When starting xcompmgr all the action on the desktop comes very slow and moving opened windows leave a "ghost picture" of the window in the former place.
I'm using fluxbox as my window manager on an ATI -videocard system. Composition is enabled in xorg.conf and everything else is working great. I just can't get any system monitoring software to use transparency (so far I've tried gdesklets and SuperKaramba) and they look pretty ugly with a black box surrounding the meters.
Could anyone help me with this issue? So far I've had no luck following howto's and other common tips&tricks.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
i would like to make my terminal look always transparent. But always. How?
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Antipop
I've got a little problem with xcompmgr, it totally halts my desktop upon starting it. When starting xcompmgr all the action on the desktop comes very slow and moving opened windows leave a "ghost picture" of the window in the former place.
I'm using fluxbox as my window manager on an ATI -videocard system. Composition is enabled in xorg.conf and everything else is working great. I just can't get any system monitoring software to use transparency (so far I've tried gdesklets and SuperKaramba) and they look pretty ugly with a black box surrounding the meters.
Could anyone help me with this issue? So far I've had no luck following howto's and other common tips&tricks.
xcompmgr works well on my computer, i have an AMD athlon 700MHz and a Nvidia FX 5200 graphic card, i try to install it on a friend's computer last week, he has 1.4GHz pentium + ATI graphics card and i have this kind of problem, all become really too slow !!!!!
My conclusion is that xcompmgr work bad (too slow) with ATI cards. Maybe someone use ATI graphic card and run xcompmgr well ? but i nerver met such person
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by frodon
My conclusion is that xcompmgr work bad (too slow) with ATI cards. Maybe someone use ATI graphic card and run xcompmgr well ? but i nerver met such person
Kinda. ATI cards can do the drop shawdows-
the -cC option
But nothing but an Nvidia card can do fading correctly-
the -fF option, my fav.
I bought an Nvidia card to clear up the second problem.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
I tried to run this little thing, and Gnome failed to start completely, once I got past the login screen it just froze up, so I had to remove all aspects of this. Oh well. I will survive, if I wanted shadowing that badly I would stay with windows
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by burki
i would like to make my terminal look always transparent. But always. How?
Well, i wanted the same thing, and here's how i did it.
First, i compiled and installed the patched version of transset, transset-df. This program allows you to set a programs transparency by the window id instead of a click. You can get this program at:
http://www.forchheimer.se/transset-df/
Ok, now i need to figure out how to get the window ids for the program i want. I came up with this script (trans-gnometerm) to do that:
Code:
#/bin/bash
for i in `xwininfo -all -root | grep ' 0x........"Terminal' | grep -o '0x.......'`;
do
command=`transset-df -i $i 0.8`;
done
Now that i've got that worked out, i just run this script when a new bash shell starts. Look in /home/user/.bashrc for the xterm case and add trans-gnometerm somewhere in there.
(my first ubuntu forums post)
EDIT:
Oh, i forgot to say that you need to change the gnome-terminal settings so that it only displays Terminal as the default window title.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by ratl3
Well, i wanted the same thing, and here's how i did it.
First, i compiled and installed the patched version of transset, transset-df. This program allows you to set a programs transparency by the window id instead of a click. You can get this program at:
http://www.forchheimer.se/transset-df/
Ok, now i need to figure out how to get the window ids for the program i want. I came up with this script (trans-gnometerm) to do that:
Code:
#/bin/bash
for i in `xwininfo -all -root | grep ' 0x........"Terminal' | grep -o '0x.......'`;
do
command=`transset-df -i $i 0.8`;
done
Now that i've got that worked out, i just run this script when a new bash shell starts. Look in /home/user/.bashrc for the xterm case and add trans-gnometerm somewhere in there.
(my first ubuntu forums post)
EDIT:
Oh, i forgot to say that you need to change the gnome-terminal settings so that it only displays Terminal as the default window title.
hi following the howto
i get stuck in with the splash screen
i have a nvidia fx440
only way to log in is to comment out the suggested additons to xorg.conf
any ideas?
thanks
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Due to some xcompmgr problems (with logout window for exemple) and because sometimes I want to swich off xcompmgr (to play games for exemple) I wrote a small bash script in order to toggle on/off xcompmgr.
1) create a file called toggle_xcompmgr.bash (or what you want) and move it to /usr/bin :
Code:
sudo mv toggle_xcompmgr.bash /usr/bin/
2) edit the file like that (choose the option you want for xcompmgr, I use -fF) :
Code:
#!/bin/bash
a=`ps -aef | grep -i xcompmgr | awk ' {if ($8 == "xcompmgr"){printf "2"}} '`
if [[ $a = "" ]]
then
xcompmgr -fF &
killall gnome-panel
else
kill -9 `ps -aef | grep -i xcomp | awk ' {if ($8 == "xcompmgr"){printf $2}} '`
killall gnome-panel
fi
3) make the script executable :
Code:
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/toggle_xcompmgr.bash
4) right click on gnome panel and add a shortcut, choose custom shortcut in the menu and add /usr/bin/toggle_xcompmgr.bash in the command field.
Now each time you click on the icon xcompmgr is toggled on/off.
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really cool frodon, nice script, thank you.
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That is a very nice script for turning it on and off. Thanks alot. For people who want to have shadows after using the script they will need to edit that script so it starts xcompmgr with the shadow option. There is a problem with this script and gdesklets though. I think it has something to do with gdesklets using its own transparency or that of composite, switching between the 2 causes problems. Thanks for the script.
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If you use gdesklet I think the problem come from the killall gnome-panel lines, because the gdesklets icon is on gnome panel and when you kill the panel ... it kill also gdesklet (or gaim for me).
So if you want to solve that, you can remove the killall gnome-panel lines in the script, it will work but when you will maximize a window it will be above gnome-panel (it's why I always do a killall gnome-panel in my script). Maybe it's a better solution for your use ... up to you (otherwise you will have to restart gdesklet after using this script, it's what I do for gaim .. it takes 2 sec to click on the icon ;-) ).
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Partially off-topic: I find it surprising how many people want to make their terminals transparent. And some want everything to be transparents. I for one can't understand this, since it would make the contents of the windows a lot harder to read. Transparent windows would be perfect for out-of-focus windows, but it shouldn't IMO be used everywhere.
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Thanks alot frodon. I kind of like my maximized windows over the panel since i barely ever use them maximized.
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Thought i would add a screenshot of my Gnome Desktop, although i use Xfce4 as my default desktop.
Thanks to you guys, i have added transset to some of my windows. Love it works great. Toshiba laptop M30, 528mb, Centrino 1800, 64mb Nvidia.
Love Linux. \\:D/
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Originally Posted by kingofhell
it just didnt work for me
help pls
Code:
root@ubuntu:/home/tianbo # apt-get install xcompmgr transset
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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 to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
transset: Depends: libxcomposite1 but it is not installable
Depends: libxdamage1 but it is not installable
Depends: libxfixes3 but it is not installable
xcompmgr: Depends: libxcomposite1 but it is not installable
Depends: libxdamage1 but it is not installable
Depends: libxfixes3 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
It works for me, amazing, except i had to stop loading it, as my system will not shut down, any thought on this?
Help!!
Coz i love it...
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It Works, very very well! I like it alot.
here is a screenshot using Gnome, I also use Xfce which runs even better, although i would love to know how to start xcompmgr automaticaly? I have to open a terminal and run xcompmgr -sfF everytime within xfce?? Any help here? \\:D/ :grin:
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
The answer of this question is in the thread ... add your xcompmgr command in System > Preferences > Session with the wanted option(s), and give the number 0 for this line in order to be sure that xcompmgr is the first application to be launched (important).
I gave also a script (previous page i think) which allow you to toggle on/off xcompmgr with a simple icon.
xcompmgr is so great !!!!!!
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
For some reason when im using xcompmgr everything gets all screwy.
Screenshot:
http://home.no.net/catolh/Screenshot.png
In fact, everything is messed up.. :\
I have an ATI card, using the latest fglrx drivers.
Im currently using gdesklets and i need to use xcompmgr to make them transparent..
Help.. :(
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Quote:
Originally Posted by catolh
For some reason when im using xcompmgr everything gets all screwy.
Screenshot:
http://home.no.net/catolh/Screenshot.png
In fact, everything is messed up.. :\
I have an ATI card, using the latest fglrx drivers.
Im currently using gdesklets and i need to use xcompmgr to make them transparent..
Help.. :(
I know how to start it up in gnome, I would like to know how to start it automatically in Xfce, any
ideas?
At the moment i use (alt f2) then run xcompmgr -cfF. Thanks.
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To make gdesklets use their xcompmgr for their transparency right click on the gdesklets icon and go to Configuration. Put a check in the box under Xcomposite support. Hope this helps.
To start in XFCE i think you may need to put xcompmgr in your .xfwmrc file.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by catolh
I have an ATI card, using the latest fglrx drivers.
ATI + xcompmgr = not good time.
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
I tried this with a ASUS (A7VBX-LA) motherboard with integrated graphics (VIA), and it killed x for kubuntu.
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I followed through the whole tutorial and then rebooted. WhenI tried to log in again it stopped (or took to long time for me to wait) when it loaded update-notifier.
This is strange, why did this happend?
Atleast I got the renderaccl-thingie, didn't have that before. :)
Things seem to run smoother now, haven't put it to a lot of stress yet though. :)
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It worked perfectly for me, and I've been wanting to get transparencies set for a while. Thanks!
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The shadows work, but my computer freezes on the fade in/out. I followed the tutorial precisly. GeForce 4 Ti4200.
What's left to do?
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Originally Posted by Trojan1313
The shadows work, but my computer freezes on the fade in/out. I followed the tutorial precisly. GeForce 4 Ti4200.
What's left to do?
Nothing. No Nvidia card before the FX series supports shadows. I think its lacks the needed Open GL (which is hardwired into card). Use fading, or Enlightened Gnome's (E17) fake shadows:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...6&page=1&pp=10
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Originally Posted by poofyhairguy
Nothing. No Nvidia card before the FX series supports shadows.
Will I have issues with a GeForce2 mx400?
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Originally Posted by poofyhairguy
Oh shoot. =/
manicka: lol :p
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Re: HOWTO: Making your windows look super sweet in Hoary (compositing)
Quote:
Originally Posted by manicka
Will I have issues with a GeForce2 mx400?
Well....fading should work nicely with official drivers.
Drop shadows won't work on any card older than a 5200FX with official drivers.
(thats why I bought a 5200FX chap on the internet. And I liked it SOO much I sold that and bought a 6600 GT. Full blown eye candy is cool.)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Trojan1313
Oh shoot. =/
manicka: lol :p
It was a serious question, I know very little about graphics cards as I'm not really into gaming etc.
If nothing else your reply made me go to the nvidia site and check things out, as I didn't get what was so funny.
:)
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Originally Posted by orev
I tried this with a ASUS (A7VBX-LA) motherboard with integrated graphics (VIA), and it killed x for kubuntu.
I think I have the same motherboard, but I've got a nvidia card in there as well (5200FX, if I remember right). I'm running Hoary Kubuntu, and XFCE - under XFCE, transparencies and shadows work great, but with KDE, X ends up rebooting on me when I try and run xcompmgr. I didn't catch any error messages when I checked the logs. Freaky.
I did a quick search of the forums and googled a bit, but didn't see anything that helped. Any suggestions?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Drain
I think I have the same motherboard, but I've got a nvidia card in there as well (5200FX, if I remember right). I'm running Hoary Kubuntu, and XFCE - under XFCE, transparencies and shadows work great, but with KDE, X ends up rebooting on me when I try and run xcompmgr. I didn't catch any error messages when I checked the logs. Freaky.
I did a quick search of the forums and googled a bit, but didn't see anything that helped. Any suggestions?
Don't use xcompmgr in KDE. It has a fork of it built in- kompmgr. Its actually a little more stable. Do all of the Xorg stuff in this guide, reboot and then look through the KDe options (the one you need is called "transparancies."
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Whoa, I just wanted to post to say that I haven't used Ubuntu since about a month after I originally posted this but I'm amazed it's still around :D Finally gone back to it, though.
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I also tried the compositing in kubuntu and I managed to get it work. However it was so slooooow that I had to remove it. Maybe because of my Matrox g400 that lacks of performance (but has a nice 2d image quality). :D
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Originally Posted by GoA
I also tried the compositing in kubuntu and I managed to get it work. However it was so slooooow that I had to remove it. Maybe because of my Matrox g400 that lacks of performance (but has a nice 2d image quality). :D
The one in the universe is label cvs2004 blah blah...is there a newer version. has anyone tried it?