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Re: [opensuse-factory] compiz, how?
- From: "M9." <monkey9@xxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:17:57 +0200
- Message-id: <46C2A8A5.1080808@xxxxxx>
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Martin Schlander schreef:
> Den Tuesday 14 August 2007 20:24:23 skrev Jan Karjalainen:
>> In Yast Software Management one can choose compiz and xgl under
>> "Desktop Effects", but then there is no way to activate it from Yast,
>> neither is there any application anywhere in the K menu where to
>> enable compiz from.
>> I'm runnning 10.3 beta 1.
>
> I assume all you have to do is the same as on 10.2:
>
> # gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl
>
> # rcxdm restart (or simply reboot, which is very fast now ;-) )
>
> Actually I've been meaning to post a bug report about "gnome-xgl-switch".. it
> has absolutely nothing to do with GNOME, and people are confused by it, "But
> I use KDE??".. I'd suggest either renaming it to xgl-switch or perhaps to
> ship the distro with "xgl-switch" or "opensuse-xgl-switch" as an alias
> for "gnome-xgl-switch".
>
> I agree that it would be nice to have some clicky, clicky way of enabling it,
> even running a few simple commands in the terminal is frightening to some
> people. And it shouldn't be much work to create some simple thingy..
>
> However I will provide an updated version of opensuse-xgl-settings for 10.3
> when the time comes..
> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/opensuse-xgl-settings?content=51201
>
> But third party tools will only help a small percentage of users..
Something else has to be done in 10.2:
tribal-sfn2:/home/monkey9 # gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl
Warning! MD5DIR is not set: you probably called this script outside
SuSEconfig...!
Using MD5DIR="/var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5"...
No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config
tribal-sfn2:/home/monkey9 #
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Have a nice day,
M9. Now, is the only time that exists.
OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-05-default x86_64
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Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64)
KDE: 3.5.7 "release 35.1"
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Martin Schlander schreef:
> Den Tuesday 14 August 2007 20:24:23 skrev Jan Karjalainen:
>> In Yast Software Management one can choose compiz and xgl under
>> "Desktop Effects", but then there is no way to activate it from Yast,
>> neither is there any application anywhere in the K menu where to
>> enable compiz from.
>> I'm runnning 10.3 beta 1.
>
> I assume all you have to do is the same as on 10.2:
>
> # gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl
>
> # rcxdm restart (or simply reboot, which is very fast now ;-) )
>
> Actually I've been meaning to post a bug report about "gnome-xgl-switch".. it
> has absolutely nothing to do with GNOME, and people are confused by it, "But
> I use KDE??".. I'd suggest either renaming it to xgl-switch or perhaps to
> ship the distro with "xgl-switch" or "opensuse-xgl-switch" as an alias
> for "gnome-xgl-switch".
>
> I agree that it would be nice to have some clicky, clicky way of enabling it,
> even running a few simple commands in the terminal is frightening to some
> people. And it shouldn't be much work to create some simple thingy..
>
> However I will provide an updated version of opensuse-xgl-settings for 10.3
> when the time comes..
> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/opensuse-xgl-settings?content=51201
>
> But third party tools will only help a small percentage of users..
Something else has to be done in 10.2:
tribal-sfn2:/home/monkey9 # gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl
Warning! MD5DIR is not set: you probably called this script outside
SuSEconfig...!
Using MD5DIR="/var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5"...
No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config
tribal-sfn2:/home/monkey9 #
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Have a nice day,
M9. Now, is the only time that exists.
OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-05-default x86_64
Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2
Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64)
KDE: 3.5.7 "release 35.1"
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