View Full Version : [ubuntu] How enable engadget or those mac like menu in Gnome
ramnarayan
July 17th, 2009, 06:51 AM
Hi
am running 9.04 on a t60 with 4 GB RAM and an ATI X1300 graphics card.
Compiz does not work ?? and even though the packages are installed it does not appear as a menu item anywhere
But my real question is i want to enable a menu panel - like in KDE or MAC (I think ) the one that floats around at the bottom and on hovering above a icon it bloats up proudly.
i have installed gdesklets but that too does not seem to do the job.
~sHyLoCk~
July 17th, 2009, 07:47 AM
Hi
am running 9.04 on a t60 with 4 GB RAM and an ATI X1300 graphics card.
Compiz does not work ?? and even though the packages are installed it does not appear as a menu item anywhere
But my real question is i want to enable a menu panel - like in KDE or MAC (I think ) the one that floats around at the bottom and on hovering above a icon it bloats up proudly.
i have installed gdesklets but that too does not seem to do the job.
Install cairo-dock and cairo-dock-plugins. Btw why shouldn't compiz work? Did you install ccsm? Also install fusion-icon.
ramnarayan
July 17th, 2009, 07:49 AM
Btw why shouldn't compiz work? Did you install ccsm? Also install fusion-icon.
It does'nt - no idea why ??
~sHyLoCk~
July 17th, 2009, 07:50 AM
It does'nt - no idea why ??
Try and see what happens
compiz --replace&
ramnarayan
July 17th, 2009, 07:54 AM
Try and see what happens
compiz --replace&
something worked - Ok something worked
so now how do i get that compiz user menu to control stuff ??
thanks
~sHyLoCk~
July 17th, 2009, 08:06 AM
something worked - Ok something worked
so now how do i get that compiz user menu to control stuff ??
thanks
ccsm&
If it doesn't appear that means you don't have it installed. Do:
sudo apt-get install ccsm
ramnarayan
July 17th, 2009, 08:29 AM
Not sure what i did
along with attempting to do compiz i also was installing an ati driver package flgrx??something and now i have got locked out of my 9.04 - very stupid
tried recovery and clean and repair broken packages and even booting from an older kernal
all i get is a stupid messed up screen
am not sure what the package was called - sure it was something like flgrx-ccd or something ??
so stuck without 9.04
But hey no sweat booted into 7.10 (my back up default ubuntu) and will figure something out :-)
features
July 17th, 2009, 08:38 AM
The fglrx driver in Jaunty will not work nicely with your X1300 - it doesn't with mine. This is because ATI have relegated support for these cards to the open source drivers from Catalyst 9.04 onwards. You could try the Catalyst 9.03 driver which is the latest to support your card, but I don't think that supports the version of Xorg that ships with 9.04.
Rock, meet hard place.
The best suggestion is to install the ati drivers from the ubuntu repos or to install them from the xorg edgers ppa.
You will need to uninstall the fglrx drivers first though.
HTH
ramnarayan
July 17th, 2009, 08:43 AM
Rock, meet hard place.
met and now its in trouble both the rock and the hard place ;-)
You will need to uninstall the fglrx drivers first though.
HTH
This is is the question, what package and how
Deiutzu
July 17th, 2009, 11:12 AM
Hello
I had a similar problem on an ATI Radeon Xpress. First, start Ubuntu in terminal from the boot menu (press esc when asked or follow the instructions described here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=362597 Then, remove the faulty driver by using the command
sudo apt-get remove fglrx. Also remove x org drivers by using
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg, then reinstall them with the command
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg. Then reboot. You will now have the original driver but no hardware acceleration. You ca try out different drivers from here.
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Andrei C.
features
July 17th, 2009, 11:33 AM
Hello
I had a similar problem on an ATI Radeon Xpress. First, start Ubuntu in terminal from the boot menu (press esc when asked or follow the instructions described here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=362597 Then, remove the faulty driver by using the command
sudo apt-get remove fglrx. Also remove x org drivers by using
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg, then reinstall them with the command
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg. Then reboot. You will now have the original driver but no hardware acceleration. You ca try out different drivers from here.
Yes, do this (thanks Andrei, much better than what I was going to suggest)
I'll include my xorg.conf which is a working setup for the ati drivers. Note you may get some screen flickering with the ones in Jaunty's repos. It also doesn't play nice with Emerald, if you want to use that. But it will get you compiz, at least. I hope it's useful
If you use dual monitors, then you will need to set your virtual resolution in the SCREEN section
# xorg.conf (X.Org 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 xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man 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 command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" # Valid options are XAA and EXA, XAA old, reliable & default, EXA newer faster
Option "EnablePageFlip" "TRUE" # page flipping for 3D accel, increases performance but doesn't work in rare cases, hence default is off.
Option "FBTexPercent" "50" # with EXA 0 may be faster but may cause probs, XAA no real efect, default 50
Option "DMAForXv" "TRUE" # Default on speed up playing video
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
# Virtual 2560 1024 Set your own resolution here if you use dual head
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0666
EndSection
ramnarayan
July 17th, 2009, 09:15 PM
I solved the problem by installing Linux Mint 7 (also an excuse to try it out)
however will revert to 9.04 in a while after attending to some jobs.
So while i have not used the solutions suggested am marking it as solved. Since it does tell me how
Thanks folks
ramnarayan
July 20th, 2009, 12:06 PM
Bump
Ok
I am back on a stable 9.04 (i think stable)
so would despertely like to have some eye candy
Like those menu's in KDE and MAC where the menu icons spring up when you hover over them
Any ideas ??
fabounet
July 20th, 2009, 03:04 PM
here you go :)
http://www.cairo-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=By%20distributions&lang=en
ramnarayan
July 20th, 2009, 06:18 PM
Cairo works
marking this solved
thanks folks / ubuntu friends :-)
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