On 07/21/2010 02:31 AM, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Dear All,
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Hope you will continue having a lot of fun,
Dominique
Here is the first few tidbits on 9.0 that I found on my first run-through. This was on a box with a radeon card (older 9600): STARTUP ISSUES: (1) The current fusion icon does not work with 9.0. Without fusion-icon there is no systray icon to provide an interface to easily switch window decorators or to alternate WM's to get out of compiz if all does not go well. (2) compiz-manager does not start 9.0. Attempting to start compiz with compiz-manager, results in the following string of errors: 18:00 zephyr:~> compiz-manager --replace ccp & [3] 16305 [2] Done emerald --replace 18:01 zephyr:~> Checking for Xgl: not present. xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:05.0 0300: 1002:4e50 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Checking for software rasterizer: not present. Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present. Checking for non power of two support: present. Checking for Composite extension: present. Comparing resolution (1440x900) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed. Checking for nVidia: not present. Checking for FBConfig: present. Checking for Xgl: not present. Starting emerald /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Warn: Unknown option '--ignore-desktop-hints' Backend : ini Integration : true Profile : default Adding plugins Initializing core options...done /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Warn: Plugin 'core' already active /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Plugin 'core' not loaded. /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: InitPlugin 'composite' failed /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'composite' /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Plugin 'core' not loaded. /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: InitPlugin 'opengl' failed /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'opengl' /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Plugin 'core' not loaded. /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: InitPlugin 'decor' failed /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'decor' /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Plugin 'core' not loaded. /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: InitPlugin 'move' failed /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'move' /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Plugin 'core' not loaded. /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: InitPlugin 'resize' failed /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'resize' /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Plugin 'core' not loaded. /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: InitPlugin 'ccp' failed /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'ccp' /usr/bin/compiz-manager: line 439: 16379 Segmentation fault ${COMPIZ_BIN_PATH}${COMPIZ_NAME} $COMPIZ_OPTIONS "$@" $COMPIZ_PLUGINS kwin: Unexpected argument 'ccp'. kwin: Use --help to get a list of available command line options. [3]+ Exit 254 compiz-manager --replace ccp (3) Thankfully, manually starting compiz still works just fine. The cli used was: compiz --replace --sm-disable --indirect-rendering --ignore-desktop-hints ccp & compiz started, but a new configuration was required. The config was created under ~/.config/compiz-1. The current config is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/compiz/9.0/Default.ini CCSM Bug: There is a bug in the ccsm module. After you select [ ] Splash, the splash is activate 'every' time you choose another option -- not a biggie, but annoying :p VERY SLOW PERFORMANCE: Following configuration, compiz seemed to work normally, but much, much slower than 8.6 on this same box. Cube rotation that had been pretty crisp with 8.6, now lags very badly and the rotation is limited to 1/2 rev./(full mouse left-right) I haven't any idea why 9.0 should be slower than 8.6 on this box. All I did was remove 8.6 and install 9.0 with no other packages (kernel or xf86-video-ati....) changed. (the new blue splash is cool though) DECORATIONS MISSING: The big issue on start was all window decorations were missing. The current emerald does not work with 9.0, but unfortunately when 9.0 started, it started without *any* decorations despite the [ ] Window Decorations option being selected by default in ccsm?? The only way I was able to get window decorations back was to manually start: gtk-window-decorator --replace & I still don't know whether starting compiz caused it, or my trying to restore the window decorations caused it, but my xsession-errors log filled up with 6M+ of the following error: Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/david/.config/metacity/sessions/1068677fdb6da28730128087768223823800000197720051.ms: Failed to open file '/home/david/.config/metacity/sessions/1068677fdb6da28730128087768223823800000197720051.ms': No such file or directory Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager. That's all the time I have had tonight. Let me know if you have any startup or config suggestions for either getting emerald decorations working or having the gtk decorations active by default. Any tricks on the speed issue? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 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