[opensuse] What's going on? X frying the CPU, Compiz totally broken... crisis hits SUSE?
What is going on? There's a bug making X use up every available cycle under Gnome, Compiz broke completely (no decorations, no cube) after updates from about a week ago and nothing seems to be done about it. Did crisis hit suse or sth? And a related question, since Compiz does not work: why is Avant Window Navigator telling me that "screen isn't composited" while metacity is a compositing window manager? I am on openSUSE 11.1 with newest Gnome and have nVidia GeForce 6600 with their (binary) drivers. -- skx. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 01 March 2009 23:05:06 skx wrote:
What is going on?
There's a bug making X use up every available cycle under Gnome, Compiz broke completely (no decorations, no cube) after updates from about a week ago and nothing seems to be done about it. Did crisis hit suse or sth?
What's the bug number?
And a related question, since Compiz does not work: why is Avant Window Navigator telling me that "screen isn't composited" while metacity is a compositing window manager?
metacity is a compositing window manager only if the underlying X server/driver supports it. If that doesn't work, for whatever reason, metacity doesn't do compositing.
I am on openSUSE 11.1 with newest Gnome and have nVidia GeForce 6600 with their (binary) drivers.
What does "newest gnome" mean? Where did you get it from? Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anders Johansson wrote/napisał(a):
There's a bug making X use up every available cycle under Gnome, Compiz broke completely (no decorations, no cube) after updates from about a week ago and nothing seems to be done about it. Did crisis hit suse or sth?
What's the bug number?
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472046
And a related question, since Compiz does not work: why is Avant Window Navigator telling me that "screen isn't composited" while metacity is a compositing window manager?
metacity is a compositing window manager only if the underlying X server/driver supports it. If that doesn't work, for whatever reason, metacity doesn't do compositing.
That may be why Compiz doesn't work. Damn it...
I am on openSUSE 11.1 with newest Gnome and have nVidia GeForce 6600 with their (binary) drivers.
What does "newest gnome" mean? Where did you get it from?
From openSUSE repositories (I have stable and community enabled) installed through Yast patterns. Metacity version is 2.25.144-16.20. I don't know which package is a core one for GNOME, gnome-desktop version is 2.25.91-36.7. -- skx. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 01 March 2009 23:55:36 skx wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote/napisał(a):
There's a bug making X use up every available cycle under Gnome, Compiz broke completely (no decorations, no cube) after updates from about a week ago and nothing seems to be done about it. Did crisis hit suse or sth?
What's the bug number?
Well, as you can see yourself in that bug, lots of work has been done. The problem seems to be that the upstream patch for this is broken, and our developers are working with the upstream developers to produce something that is more acceptable. In the mean time, it seems that the bug is only triggered by the beta packages for gnome 2.26, so the quick fix would be to run the 11.1 distribution packages of gnome (2.24) where the bug is not triggered Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anders Johansson wrote/napisał(a):
In the mean time, it seems that the bug is only triggered by the beta packages for gnome 2.26, so the quick fix would be to run the 11.1 distribution packages of gnome (2.24) where the bug is not triggered
I removed every package from gnome and kde I could find and reinstalled gnome with safe repositories only enabled. The problem with X went away, Compiz mostly works, still no decorations though and icons in the tray all look the same so I probably missed some icon pack. It's just annoying that updates breaks system instead of fixing it. -- skx. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 02 March 2009 00:47:20 skx wrote:
It's just annoying that updates breaks system instead of fixing it.
This is the price you pay for being a beta tester. On the one hand, you are one of the first to see and use new features - on the other hand, you are one of the first to see and hurt from new bugs :) Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anders Johansson wrote/napisał(a):
It's just annoying that updates breaks system instead of fixing it.
This is the price you pay for being a beta tester.
I was a betatester accidentally and involuntarily ;) BTW GTK decorations do not appear when Compiz is running. I use emerald anyway, but is it supposed to be like that? -- skx. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 02 March 2009 01:01:09 skx wrote:
BTW GTK decorations do not appear when Compiz is running. I use emerald anyway, but is it supposed to be like that?
compiz uses its own window decorations. The last time I ran compiz (quite a while ago) you had to start that manually (something like gnome-window- decorator, or similar). I think that has since been automated, but I'm not sure of the details, since I mainly use KDE with the built-in effects. emerald would replace the gtk window decorations, so whatever you do to start emerald, you would do to start the "normal" decorations if you wanted to use them. But as I said, I'm not an expert. You probably want someone else to chime in if you really want an answer, but then you should start a new thread for it Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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