Installing Compiz Fusion

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:58 pm

What's the name of the weather program you're running?

antiquexray,

The GDesklet is called GoodWeather. I got it, and a bunch of other goodies @ The unofficial gDesklets Desklet archive, but the site seems to be down @ http://gdesklets.zencomputer.ca/.

I just Googled for you, and I'm not able to find GoodWeather. That is a working page.

But, I do have the tar.gz file if you want it, PIM me, and I'll send it along.

Adler

Edit -- Oops, I just found GoodWeather @ http://www.gdesklets.de/index.php?q=desklet/view/171

antiquexray · Post by **antiquexray** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:12 pm

Adler wrote:
What's the name of the weather program you're running?
antiquexray,

The GDesklet is called GoodWeather. I got it, and a bunch of other goodies @ The unofficial gDesklets Desklet archive, but the site seems to be down @ http://gdesklets.zencomputer.ca/.

I just Googled for you, and I'm not able to find GoodWeather. That is a working page.

But, I do have the tar.gz file if you want it, PIM me, and I'll send it along.

Adler

Edit -- Oops, I just found GoodWeather @ http://www.gdesklets.de/index.php?q=desklet/view/171

OK got it, now how do I install it...I haven't worked much with tar files.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:28 pm

OK got it, now how do I install it...I haven't worked much with tar files.

antiquexray,

Firstly, you will have to have gDesklets installed. You can get it in Synaptic. Get both packages there e.g. gDesklets / Data. GDesklets-Data has a bunch of cool eye-candy Desklets. There's where I got the MAC OSX-like clock.

Some of the Desklets never seemed to work for me, and I assume they are abandoned packages. Therefore, I found the un-official gDeklets archive where I got GoodWeather.

At any rate, launch gDesklets from your menu. You'll see it launch to your Taskbar, and also you'll get a window (Shell) with a host of categories. You can play around with these, and see if you one or two are useful to you.

To install GoodWeather, click File, then chose Install Package. That will launch your Directory, then find where you put the GoodWeather tar.gz package and install it. You should see it land on the right side window of the shell. Double click-it, and it will land on your Desktop.

Now, to get your local weather you need to configure it. Right click it, click configure. You'll need to use your location code. Here in the US just use your zip code.

Your Desklets won't populate your Desktop when you re-boot, but you can change that by adding GDesklets to Sessions. Click New, call it GDesklets, then add /usr/bin/gdesklets to the second line. When you re-boot that GDesklets should appear.

That should do it. You'll have endless hours of fun!

Adler

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:58 pm

Adler said:

There was a compiz-Fusion up-date in the repositories yesterday. I up-dated, and now a good deal of features are missing e.g. Cube, and the Key Stoke Controller to launch effects.

I don't see that you had found a fix for this, but having had similar issues after the update, I thought I'd let you know what I found as a fix.

Make sure the view port switcher plug-in is enabled to initiate rotate of the cube. I don't recall having to set that before. I also lost my skydome and had to add the link to the art that I was using.

I haven't used any key stroke control, but I assume that is probably also due to setting that is new.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:19 pm

newW2,

There were two up-dates today. "Bindings" is back, but don't seem to work.

I'm running the latest Trevino repositories, and am, of course, posting elsewhere.

To see what you are running -- in terminal try

aptitude show compiz

Here's what I get:

Package: compiz
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1:0.5.5~git20070820+3v1ubuntu0
Priority: optional
Section: eyecandy/x11
Maintainer: Trevi - 3v1n0 <trevi55@gmail.com>
Uncompressed Size: 65.5k
Depends: compiz-core, compiz-plugins, compiz-decorator
Description: OpenGL window and compositing manager
Compiz brings to life a variety of visual effects that make the Linux desktop
easier to use, more powerful and intuitive, and more accessible for users with
special needs.

As far as I can tell there are no official repositories out there. I think we all hacked our way into this. LOL!

I think that there will be further progress in the repositories, and it just a wait and game right now.

Problem is so many people are trying to get this running they will be frustrated.

Adler

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:22 pm

Hey Adler, It's hot in the valley!

My Compiz-Fusion is working for me. But in my search to find out what might be happening I found this post:

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=3153

The talk there is that you need to remove Travino repositories...

Forlong on that site said: "edit: alright, I installed it on a clean Feisty install and it seems to work quite well."

////edit//// Btw I have the same version, repository etc.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:43 pm

Hey Adler, It's hot in the valley!

newW2,

It is only 104 @ 9:00 PM Hot, is 120!

How do you know the Valley of the Sun?

Anyway, I'm hanging back on all this Fusion stuff, and working on several Site development things.

I have to say that Cassandra out-of-the-box has been the best distro that I have ever worked with. I mean codecs, and Beryl. Cool Tools there.

It might become a collectors item. LOL!

I feel sorry for those folks that good so excited, and then got trashed.

Thanks for that URL.

Adler

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:59 pm

newW2,

By the way -- what happened to your Emerald themes?

Do they still work?

Adler

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:13 am

Adler: Yes my themes still work but I still use the script exploder found on the Ubuntu forms: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 5&start=15
If I already have a window open when the script is launched the min/max, etc buttons are hidden (but the bar isn't), so I place / hover the mouse pointer over the where they should be and min the window; when I max the window all is present.

re: valley of the sun. It's where summer went for the winter, stays for the spring and well into summer, gets tired of being so good around July and pours on the heat and humidity. However, it will get better about October, and the 8 good reasons to live there begins. I'm a veteran.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:30 pm

newW2,

The only thing that I have had to run was <Alt><F2> then "emerald --replace", if my Emerald Themes didn't start on re-boot.

As it stands, there has been another up-date today, but still can't launch "Cube".

I've got some compiz-Fusion functionality, and obviously greater minds than mine see the issues out there.

Been hot here hasn't it? Freakin' Hot!

Adler

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:42 pm

Adler: over on the development area you mentioned that you had compiz-fusion working. Congrats. I got frustrated with the instability and removed it. Think I'll wait until version 6.0 is out. Listening to The Linux Action Show podcast sounds like many, to include other distributions are going to wait as there are so many issues.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 8:22 pm

newW2,

I have CF all together again. And, have been posting in the Ubuntu Forums.

Try http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=481615&page=34.

Obviously there is a lot going on in the background here. It seems I only needed to change something in the Settings Manager.

I can understand why distros have decided not to include it in their next release.

Looking backwards, Mint worked best with Beryl right out of the box.

But, I try to keep going that much further, and am happy that I haven't torched my system. I've done that a few times. LOL!

Adler

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:59 pm

Hi All,

The up-dates keep coming from the Trevino's repos, and it is all so good!

However both Ubuntu, and Mint have backed off from adding compiz-fusion to their next release.

As I said before it might be better that way, but do I notice a back-off from this M$ Killer 3D Desktop in general?

Adler

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:47 pm

Stumpy842,

Cool! What are those repositories?

I'm going to move from Cassandra soon.

scorp123 · Post by **scorp123** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:43 pm

Adler wrote: I'm going to move from Cassandra soon.

I used the guides here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Compo ... mpizFusion
http://fosswire.com/2007/08/11/compizfu ... buntu-704/
http://forlong.blogage.de/article/2007/ ... ntu-Feisty

Yes, those guides are more or less identical. I checked all three just to make sure I am not following BS instructions

... So this stuff is running now tip top on my hp dv2108ea laptop (Intel GMA950 graphics).

As for launching this thing ... I created a start script with the name 'start-compizfusion.sh' and placed it into /usr/bin:

Code: Select all

#! /bin/bash
compiz --replace -c emerald &

... This will activate compiz-fusion and load emerald as window decorator. Cool

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:16 pm

scorp123,

Thanks for that. I worked my way through all the guides, but will stay put. Basically, everything works.

That will keep me going on and on for the until the next Mint release that I see.

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:50 pm

Stumpy842,

Thanks. I'll save this post, and when I move again to the next Mint version I'll do that thing to my repositories.

Is it, or not included in Celena? I don't think it is in the latest Ubuntu release.

This is one of the reasons that I'm sticking with Cassandra. I have better things to do -- like work on my WordPress Blog.

Armann · Post by **Armann** » Fri May 09, 2008 1:14 pm

Will this tutorial work fine with Daryna ?

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