Installing Compiz Fusion

exploder · Post by **exploder** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:20 am

I edited the "How To" for the Compiz Fusion icon to try and make it as easy and clear as possible.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:18 pm

kainnvin,

I managed to torch Fusion, lost my WM, and had some strange things happened to video.

No big deal -- I didn't loose my OS -- I've done that often enough. LOL! I got it all back again e.g. Compix-Fusion with your How-To. If you can edit it all again I go back and try it again. I'm still not getting my Emerald Themes.

Again, great work in the conversion from Beryl. And, the other comments here.

To get a screen shot I use KSnapsot, from KDE, it is in the Synaptic repositories. I use ImageShack (sign-up) to post the images to, then get the code to show images on Forums, or Web Sites. It is basically cut & paste.

To do video I use gtk-recordMyDesktop -- that comes with Mint, but the output is in the .ogg/Vorbis format, which YouTube will not accept. And, everyone else that I tried. If you record a copy of all those neat Fusion things it should land in your /Home file.

There will be an Icon in your Taskbar that shows that you have turned RecordMyDesktop on, click it again to stopped recording, and you should see it record the file. The App will tell you not to do anything until the process is completed.

To convert the .ogg file to .avi use this in Terminal.

I almost forgot you need to have have mencoder installed -- that is also be found -- in Synaptic. I forget if that was part of Mint. I want that Mint DVD!

Anyway, to convert an .ogg/Vorbis file to .avi, do this in terminal

mencoder -o output_file.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=5000:vhq -ffourcc DX50 -oac pcm -srate 48000 -ofps 25 your_movie.mov

your_movie.mov has the properties of something like /home/jjmacey/out3.ogg.3

I love to watch that compiling process.

Your new .avi file should land in /Home. Then post it to YouTube.

Let's flood the world with Mint! I'm working on that.

Anyway, I thought that I would share a few things, but still looking for that new Theme selection with those old Emerald Themes.

Adler

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:18 pm

I haven't had much time to try much, but emerald themes only work when I do compiz --replace -c emerald & after a session as started, if I try to use it at startup I loose the window borders and have to restart X to get them back.

kainnvin,

I've noticed there have been daily up-dates for Fusion since I did the install. Rather than keep trying to install Emerald themes I'll live with what I have, which is enough to play with, if you know what I mean. I imagine a FusionManager, and WindowDecorator of some sort will come along soon enough!

Adler

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:12 pm

kainnvin,

I decided that I could not wait for the repos to catch up. So, I started some Google searches.

I ran into this @ PlanetUbuntu.

http://swik.net/Ubuntu/Planet+Ubuntu/St ... n%3F/bce9s

I've responded to their Blog asking about Emerald themes.

Then went to the Ubuntu Forums, and started a new topic.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... ost2958899

From the thread there -

I have Fusion running with Emerald and no problems.

Let's see what happens. I did notice that Forum questions were coming in very fast, and furious concerning Fusion. I can only say that I am very glad that I now have an NVIDIA card in my Notebook. LOL!

Adler

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:02 pm

kainnvin,

One of the good things about your How To is that it uses repositories that will get updated. Other things that I followed used scripts, I don't like scripts as the long term answer to an issue.

I use alt + F2 then enter "compiz --replace -c". You posted that earlier.

That keeps everything looking good. But, no Emerald themes. No big deal right now as I know things will changes.

Just to be sure, what is the command line that I should use to add to Sessions, after I name it CompizFusion?

To be honest, I was just playing with UBUNTU 7.04 64-Bit, and was not happy with a lot of things. And, came back here. LOL!

TIA for your help.

Adler

I'll live with the

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:39 pm

Hello Adler. I went to you website cool site. Did you try that command with emerald on the end of it?

compiz --replace -c emerald &

Works great for me.

I have my favorite themes.

I'm going to try your how to for recording my desktop. I have family and friends I want to show off to .... I mean I want to get them interested in Linux - preferably Mint.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:25 pm

newW2,

Still not having much success here.

I use alt + F2 with the code
compiz --replace -c emerald &

Fusion launches, but I loose my window border. When I launch Terminal there is just a white space. Hmm...

I have imported one Beryl Theme into Emerald. Am I using the wrong type of theme?

Adler

PS Thanks for the comments on my Site.

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:53 pm

I guess I would try the old standby for the white screen:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visual

Also I had tested an xorg reconfig solutions before posting and ended up having to re-run envy, the next time around. Sounds like you have all but the themes though. I always have to re-run the visual command after playing in another sand-box.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:02 pm

newW2,

You may have misunderstood me. I'm not getting a White Screen, but when I launch "Terminal", it launches, but is all white, with no Task Bar, which makes trying to close it an interesting experience of "Hunt & Peck". LOL!

To add to that, my Task Bar is missing for all and any Windows when I lunch Fusion using alt + F2, or try adding code to Sessions to get Fusion to launch on Boot. However, all those cool effects are there!

I've been to other Forums, and it does appear to work, but not on my machine. I'll keep watching to see what improves.

Thanks for your reply.

Adler

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:34 am

Does anybody know or seen if Compiz usion works with nvidia legacy cards? Specifically for laptops, such a geforce4 mx Series. Been scouring google but still no confirmation.

twodogs · Post by **twodogs** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:26 pm

this works great and i have compiz set to start on boot.

however, emerald is not working or not enabled. how do i do this?

also, if i wanted to turn off compiz(only gyod knows why?!) how would i restart it? reboot? there should be an icon i could click...

aparently there is an icon and it is not in our repo. i tried the apt-get install icon bit but doesn't find icon. go here to read more about it.

great work! thanks for your help. -Dave.

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:11 pm

twodogs said:

however, emerald is not working or not enabled. how do i do this?

Did you try exploder's how to on the previous page?

once you have right-clicked on the panel bar and entered the command info etc. click on the icon box (top LHS) you'll see all the icons that you can choose from. I used the green emerald gem.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:23 am

Guys,

I'm back to Beryl, and the Emerald themes. Full stop, as the British say. Happily doing my thing, and showing off my Desktops, then posting to YouTube.

Actually -- I don't see any advantages to trying Fusion. Unless they have a manager out there in the near future.

Then I'll convert. As far as I can tell Beryl "out of the box" with Cassandra was the best thing that I'd ever dealt with. And, I compiled a good deal of things from source.

Consider me stupid, but there has been a great deal of changes with Compiz / Beryl in the past. Will Fusion really be the future?

I'm rocking with Beryl right now.

Adler

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:07 pm

Hi Guys,

I've been all over a bunch of Forums trying not to loose my Windows Decorator ? Borders when I launch Fusion / Emerald.

I've tried it all in Terminal, and Alt + F2. No luck.

Are the repos up-dating? I've not seen that in the last week or so.

Finally, why isn't there a simple Fusion Windows Decorator out there by now? I mean why fight getting those Emerald Themes going?

It almost makes me want to go back to Beryl.

Adler

scorp123 · Post by **scorp123** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:39 am

Adler wrote:It almost makes me want to go back to Beryl.

That's *precisely* where I am staying right now. Compiz-Fusion is too new and for my gusto still too unstable, so I'd suggest to stay away ... for now.

hairy_Palms · Post by **hairy_Palms** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:21 am

compiz fusion is ok, but im back to vanilla compiz, beryl and fusion are just too unstable.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:20 pm

I just made two seperate entries in my sessions manager:

Compiz --replace
Emerald --replace

That did the trick for me

the_necrocide,

Thanks for that, but I did add the two commands to Sessions, but no luck.

Thanks for those comments guys I thought I was alone in not getting this going!

Adler

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:10 pm

the_necrocide,

Thanks -- I made the changes, but still no luck. Fusion launches, but no Window Decorator. I am trying to use one that I got off of Gnome-Look.org e.g. 49060-Scaled Black MacTru.emerald.

Again, if I launch Terminal it is just a white square.

Adler

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:54 am

the_necrocide,

I just un-checked Emerald e.g. emerald --replace in Sessions, and then re-booted. Same problem -- no Window Decorator. hen I went to Terminal and wanted to enter "emerald --replace to see what happens. However, when I launched Terminal it is only a white square. I've mentioned this before.

I am running a Notebook with a NVidia GForce vid card, and have enabled the latest NVidia Drivers. So my card is a nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]

Finally, here's my Xorg file:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "stylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "eraser"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "cursor"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 28.0 - 64.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x800"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection

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

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Adler

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:21 pm

the_necrocide,

Thank You! I followed your suggestions and edited my Xorg file.

As you can see below I've not only got my Window Decorator back, but also when I launch Terminal it actually opens as it should.

Thanks again!

Adler