Ben Kevan wrote:

On Thursday 20 November 2008 11:33:15 pm you wrote:

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Ben Kevan wrote:

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Hey folks,

I just wanted to see if the problem was with compiz, or with my nvidia driver ( i haven't yet tried the nv driver) have gotten compiz from the oss repository working on their box.. None of my compiz decorations start, and none of the compiz features actually work.

I just want to see if it's a bigger problem then I expected.

Ben Ben,

Sorry, I lied! Emerald does NOT work at all either in KDE4 or KDE3. We are right back to where we were with the first 0.7.8 update in the X11:/XGL and X11:/Compiz that killed emerald.

I loaded my emerald themes in ~/.emerald and after I did that, when I execute emerald --replace, You could see the theme and decorations flash on the window borders for a split second and then all decorations disappeared. The only way to revive them was with a kwin --replace, but in KDE -- all terminal input is killed when the decor crashes, so I had to make a menu entry of a small bash script to get me out. Bummer.

Same happens in KDE4 except I still have terminal input after the decor crash. Why is this causing us so much trouble?

Emerald will NOT work.. Compiz with the patch for nomad basically kills emerald (and there are no upstream maintainers to fix emerald).

The best choice may be to remove it from openSUSE 11.1 (sadly).

My issue is I don't get ANY windows decorations (trying to just use kwin). Again, this is only with the Compiz version with the nomad patch.

Ben

I guess somebody somewhere must like nomad. However from the very prominent 'absence' (or loud silence) of anyone on either the factory or opensuse lists that have anything, 'I mean anything' to say about nomad, it really makes you wonder why we are suddenly abandoning a very well liked and very elegant, working decoration package for something that, from what I can tell, nobody asked for and for something that isn't even working yet? You would think that with the amount of traffic on both lists and with the number of wide and varied members that participate in list discussions, you would have heard something -- anything, about some type of benefit that nomad will provide so that all of the current users and supporters would understand why it was a good idea to scrap a working application that was so well liked by its users. Some rime or some reason to justify all the effort and expenditure of valuable resources in that pursuit. I don't know, maybe I missed it... Sort of reminds me of another desktop issue. Ironic isn't it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. | Rankin Law Firm, PLLC | Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 www.rankinlawfirm.com | http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org