11.04 Strange Compiz issues

[catlover2]

Hello,

I recently upgraded to Natty, and Compiz and a couple other things didn't work.

I just reinstalled, thinking that would resolve the problem, bit it didn't.

If I log in to Ubuntu Classic, everything works fine until I change something in ccsm.
I'm not sure which setting does it, but windows will not move, animations are screwed up, wobbly windows don't work etc etc...

If I try to install simple-ccsm, I get this, which makes me think those 'Broken' packages are messing something up.

reed@Reeds-custom-computer:~$ sudo apt-get install simple-ccsm
[sudo] password for reed: 
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 to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 simple-ccsm : Depends: python-compizconfig (>= 0.8.2) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: compizconfig-settings-manager (>= 0.8.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
reed@Reeds-custom-computer:~$

Any ideas?

Catlover

[Nerotriple6]

Assuming you upgraded from Maverick? I'm tired and not very experienced but lets see what my head can boil up.

You had no issues in Maverick? What videocard are you running?
Are you using the same Home folder as you did in Maverick? (I have Home on it's own partition and Compiz has a hidden folder there) perhaps you could try to uninstall CCSM, delete the .compiz folder located in /home/username/ if it's there and reinstall CCSM?

I had problems in Unity and switched to Ubuntu Classic with Gnome 2 and it works just like it did in Maverick.

Uhm if my tired head complicated things...

• Uninstall Compiz
• Delete .compiz folder in /home/username/
• Reinstall CCSM
• Log into Classic Ubuntu, see if it works
• Log into Unity, see if works

Hope this helps

[catlover2]

 compizconfig-settings-manager:
 Depends: python-compizconfig but it is not going to be installed

Wha?
Why isn't it going to be installed?

[catlover2]

Ok, now I'll explain in more detail.

I did a fresh install, not upgrade.
No issues in maverick,ATI Radeon HD 4250.
Yes, same home folder.

[THE CARTER]

It is probably the desktop cube setting; I edited it and screwed up my whole computer. If you look on omgubuntu (omgubuntu.co.uk), they say that natty does not have support for desktop cube, even though there is still an option to enable it.

[catlover2]

Hmmm, now the only thing that won't work is dragging windows, I'm really confused now

[andrewthomas]

It is probably the desktop cube setting; I edited it and screwed up my whole computer. If you look on omgubuntu (omgubuntu.co.uk), they say that natty does not have support for desktop cube, even though there is still an option to enable it.

This is not true. It is unity that you can't use the desktop cube with, because it needs another plugin that conflicts with the desktop cube (maybe the desktop wall?) The cube plugin works just fine in gnome2 (classic,) xfce & kde on natty.

[catlover2]

Ok, now it seems i have reached a stable point.

Compiz i guess is "working" but it will not 'obey' ccsm.

Any setting that i change there does not get applied, even if I reload the window manager.

I don't have much hope of resolving this problem, being able to suspend with xhci_hcd in 11.04 is better than having Compiz in 10.10.


Thanks, Catlover

[afrodeity]

There is no longer a .compiz in my home folder it is now .compiz-1

I can't enable compiz in Classic after the upgrade. Was working fine before. Metacity works, but when I log in, there is only one desktop. I then have to change to --compiz-replace using the fusion-icon, and then change back to metacity. In compiz, all the windows are stuck. I've tried reinstalling compiz, unsetting compiz with gconf-tool and pretty much everything. Any ideas?

[andrewthomas]

There is no longer a .compiz in my home folder it is now .compiz-1

I can't enable compiz in Classic after the upgrade. Was working fine before. Metacity works, but when I log in, there is only one desktop. I then have to change to --compiz-replace using the fusion-icon, and then change back to metacity. In compiz, all the windows are stuck. I've tried reinstalling compiz, unsetting compiz with gconf-tool and pretty much everything. Any ideas?

Adjust the plugins that you want with ccsm, making sure that you have, at least, Composite, OpenGL, Window Decoration, Move Window & Resize Window. Then: in the terminal

compiz --replace ccp &

to launch compiz and

gtk-window-decorator --replace &

to get window decorations.