Could not acquire compositing manager selection on screen 0 display ":1.0"

[ya-manickill]

Ok, probably this has been discussed, but I actually couldnt find an answer anywhere to my problem.

When I run compiz I get this error

compiz (core) - Error: Could not acquire compositing manager selection on screen 0 display ":1.0"
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :1.0

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop with an ATI graphics card. Not sure which one, and can't remember how to work it out, so if you need it to work out whats wrong, tell me a command to find it out.

My xorg.conf

# 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 "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	Defaultdepth	24
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"fglrx"
	Option		"VideoOverlay"	"on"
	Option		"OpenGLOverlay"	"off"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"	"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizEdgeScroll"	"0"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
  screen "Default Screen"
	Inputdevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load		"glx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option		"Composite"	"Enable"
EndSection

*EDIT* I have solved this, look at my next post *EDIT*

[ankur.gupta]

same two error with my intel integrated graphics card......anybody here to help?????

[ya-manickill]

Ok, I got this to work. Basically, my problem was that Compiz couldn't manage to find the compositing manager from Metacity. So basically you have to disable the Metacity compositing manager.

I cannot remember how to do this, but I'm sure you can find someone. If not, I'll try and remember how I did it, and then I will post back with that. Hope that's good.

[catanzag]

I hope you already found the solution!!! However for who as me who come here the solution is shown in bug #178953 post

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager false

rgds