Gnome Compiz Manager
Gnome compiz manager is small utility, which manage GL Desktop configuration on XGL/AiGLX. It’s composed of two applications :
- compiz-tray-icon : which launch and stop compiz
- gnome-compiz-preferences : which adjust GL effectsThe goal isn’t to propose all compiz options but allow a simple configuration of compiz.
11 September 2006 at 8:49 am
how do i install this on my dapper to work with xgl?
When I try,it wants to replace my xgl with aixgl,which i dont wanna. =/
14 September 2006 at 9:50 pm
it’s planned to work with Xgl in future release.
for now you can also use compiz-quinn package and csm
27 September 2006 at 2:33 pm
now all we need is the cgwd themer apps. It would make it look even better :-P.
21 October 2006 at 10:38 pm
I think I’ve found a bug. When I uncheck “Show tray icon”, the tray icon disappears as expected and also compiz effects continue to work as expected. However, when I reboot, I get metacity on startup. If I’m not mistaken, the correct behavior would be compiz starting after rebooting but just with no tray icon.
29 October 2006 at 1:37 pm
Today I compiled the latest tarball.
Compiles clean and runs, however it says
“It’s seem your graphic card isn’t configured correctly to use GL Desktop”
I am using Fedora 6, and Compiz and AIGLX is working fine.
I get the following console output from gcompiz-manager
** (gnome-compiz-preferences:20242): WARNING **: plugin gconf isn’t installed
** (gnome-compiz-preferences:20242): WARNING **: plugin decoration isn’t installed
** (gnome-compiz-preferences:20242): WARNING **: plugin switcher isn’t installed
Any ideas?
3 November 2006 at 1:46 pm
Hi there!
I would like to package this for SUSE users with your permission.
The package would hosted here http://software.opensuse.org/download/X11:/XGL/
Keep up the great work.
Regards
-J
3 November 2006 at 2:16 pm
Couple of problems in the svn.
I had to copy logo24.png to metacity24.png to get it install on openSUSE 10.2.
On SUSE 10.1 I am getting the following error:
./configure: line 3524: syntax error near unexpected token `2.0.14′
./configure: line 3524: `GOB2_CHECK(2.0.14)’
What am I missing?
Thanks
-J
3 November 2006 at 10:17 pm
cyberorg
No problemo, for package
You needs gob2 http://www.jirka.org/gob.html to build gnome-compiz-manager, but I don’t know if gob2 package exist under suse.
4 November 2006 at 4:25 pm
Of course we got gob packages. I didnt have it installed on 10.1.
Another thing is gtk > 2.10 deps, we’ve got that in 10.2, but 10.1 and SLED 10 have just got gtk 2.8.10, any way we can make use of that?
Thanks
6 November 2006 at 7:22 am
Never mind, just discovered that SUSE already has a simple compiz manager, so this pacakge would not be very useful.
http://forum.beryl-project.org/topic-6249-simple-settings-manager
May be you could extend SUSE’s one to use your plugable modules, like -extras you have got.
Cheers.
-J
9 November 2006 at 2:48 am
hi
0.9.10
starts compiz with aiglx when i using nvidia driver
can you make this optional ?
i need to use aiglx and direct support because on direct i have sometimes a black window
12 November 2006 at 7:26 pm
hi!
I am trying to install the gnome compiz manager in ubuntu, when i type ./configure, ocurrs an error about XML, it says somepackage about that are required, i dont know which ones.
Does anybody had this problem?? please some help
27 November 2006 at 7:39 pm
so, i’ve installed both the gnome-compiz-manager and the -extra for edgy (ubuntu 6.10), but, the animation tab doesn’t show up. i;ve done the exact same on another system, and it DOES. the only diffrence is one uses XGL (it shows up) and the other AIGLX (it does not). any ideas why? anything i have to do to “load” it/the extras ?
7 December 2006 at 7:26 am
Hi
I saw your screenshots for the Gnome Compiz Manager… looks great!
I have a Debian system (”testing” distrib), and have compiz installed with the Debian compiz package. I have an NVIDIA card with latest driver.
Compiz seems to start fine (I get the cube!).
But I can’t figure out how to configure its effects. I wanted to use your Gnome Compiz Manager, but the ubuntu package you have doesn’t fit well on my Debian box (deps). Any idea on how I can get this done?
Thanks!
17 December 2006 at 8:21 am
A bug was recently introduced where the unchecking “show tray icon” no longer works. The icon disappears, but then it pops back up!
22 December 2006 at 12:25 pm
Hi there
The packages for openSUSE 10.2 and Factory are now available for x86 and x86_64 archs.
here: http://software.opensuse.org/download/X11:/XGL/
The packages are gnome-compiz-preferences and gnome-compiz-preferences-extra.
Keep up the great work.
-J
10 January 2007 at 4:03 pm
I follow the directions exactly. I have a dell inspiron laptop 9200, ati card that is supported. The only difference to the doc is that the “extension” section crashes X. If this is taken out in start into non compiz windowmanager. Enable it through Preferences->GL Desktop, and I can do all the cool 3D Stuff, BUT I can not get the GL Desktop App to work. Everything in that preferences dialog freezes. The whole settings menu has no mouse overs. Firefox will not go. I found out later that if I select something in the GL Desktop window, then minimize or maximize, I will THEN see the changes…? What the hell is going on. Some of the menu is left over on the desktop(no repainting to the desk). Sometimes the menu has other junk on it from the window behind it.
All my selections DO NOT KEEP! I restart and back to regular 2d metacity!
Please help me I AM HOPELESS
9 March 2007 at 9:03 am
How do I activate compiz? I am searching in the web the whole day. Help would be nice.
14 March 2007 at 5:52 pm
Hi,
I have install compiz and it appears to be working. (All plugins that i have are that is)
What i dont understand is that i dont appear to have all the plugins. (Cube, etc)
Its not showing up in the manager.
Is there anywhere i can download them and install..
please advise.
Thanks.
19 March 2007 at 10:13 pm
Is there a way to make gnome-compiz-manager run something like “LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz –replace –indirect-rendering gconf&” when enable gl desktop is checked?
2 April 2007 at 1:38 am
hi I’ve finished a translation to spanish from argentina, so called “Spanish from the Americas”, IMAHO…who invented that name?
I am not confident with SVN commands I’ll leave it here
Good Job!
cheers
2 April 2007 at 1:38 am
http://redpenguin.tuxfamily.org/Documentos-translations/es_AR.po
29 May 2007 at 4:19 pm
Hi.
When I try to configure the manager-extra I get dependency errors that indicate that I have not even GTK2 istalled
like: libglade-2.0
gconf-2.0
libgnome-2.0 etc..
Please give me a hint…. =)
4 June 2007 at 7:52 pm
Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks
10 August 2007 at 1:53 pm
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22 October 2007 at 6:23 am
I’d like to compile gnome-compiz-manager. But something wrong with the code. So I got this error message.
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/skydancer/gnome-compiz-manager-0.10.4/po’
file=`echo fr | sed ’s,.*/,,’`.gmo \
&& rm -f $file && -o $file fr.po
/bin/sh: -o: not found
make[2]: *** [fr.gmo] error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/skydancer/gnome-compiz-manager-0.10.4/po’
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/skydancer/gnome-compiz-manager-0.10.4′
make: *** [all] error 2
I’m a Korean Ubuntu(7.10) user. So I think it happens because there is no Korean translation file in the source package.
My question is this, what should I do to compile the source code without error? Is it enough just changing my local from Korean to English? Or should I change any source code to compile the package for running gnome-compiz-manager in my local?