Sunday, October 7, 2007

Almost have desktop effects workign in Gutsy...

So I have been tryign to get them to work, and I have done kind of a work around, but it seems to allow me to turn on compiz fusion. But I am not getting any window boarders or animations for that matter, its like only composite is working. Heres my output while using the fusion-icon to start it:


mike@mike-desktop:~$ fusion-icon
* Detected Session: gnome
* Searching for installed applications...
Backend : ini
Integration : true
Profile : default
Adding plugin decoration (decoration)
Initializing decoration options...done
* NVIDIA on Xorg detected, exporting: __GL_YIELD=NOTHING
* Using the GTK Interface
* Starting Compiz
... executing: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp --loose-binding --indirect-rendering
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'ccp'

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Freshmaker · 912 weeks ago

Install Emerald.

In Terminal:

sudo aptitude install emerald

Then in Terminal:

emerald --replace

You should add this to your sessions so it loads it at startup.

I had the same problem as you :P
1 reply · active 912 weeks ago
didnt work... emerald installed but emerald --replcae didnt do anything or return any errors in terminal.

also would it be possible to use emerald with xcommgr?
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pavpanchekha · 912 weeks ago

You can't use emerald with xcompmgr, I believe.

This is due to Ubuntu's upgrade procedure. A lot of stuff breaks when you update, especially if you already had compiz fusion.

The first thing I'd check is if you have trevino's repo for CompFus. If you do, disable it and sudo apt-get update

Otherwise, you'll need to reinstall.
1 reply · active 912 weeks ago
I did a clean install. I think thats what you assume I did, but I maybe be not understanding you?

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