Howto: Standalone Compiz Fusion as WM

saz · 2008-12-15 19:32:21

Hi guys!

really need some help here:

a message started to appear everytime I login, the famous "less than 10 second session"... I don't know why that is, my start-fusion is the same as before, and if I just ignore the message (simply by not pressing OK) I can use everything like I normally would, in fact I'm writing this from my fusion session with the little box with message at the corner of my screen ^^

nothing on "dmesg | tail", and on the xsession-errors file here is what I get:

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/etc/gdm/Xsession: ssh-agent not found!
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/local/bin/start-fusion.sh

any thoughts?

it's kinda annoying have to work with that message always there :x

Last edited by saz (2008-12-15 19:32:50)

ninjaprawn · 2008-12-16 20:03:39

hmmmm, i cant get this to work 1 little bit!!!

this is my ~/.xinitrc

#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
xset s off
parcellite &

#tint &
#stalonetray -w &
#nitrogen --restore &
#xcompmgr -c -D20 &
#DISPLAY=:0.1 openbox &
#exec openbox-session

lxpanel &
emerald &
exec compiz ccp &

when i type startx, X starts then stops, dropping me back to cli! it was first complaining of the module "record" in my xorg.conf, so started openbox to check, that was fine.
I decided to coment out the module anyway, now it gives no error at all!!

i have tried this with 'fusion-icon' instead of 'compiz' as well!
sorry for the lack of detail, im not sure what else would be relevent though!

thanks

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2008-12-16 20:15:03)

SamC · 2008-12-16 23:54:46

You probably should remove the "&" at the end of the last line, that might help

Ranguvar · 2008-12-17 00:24:36

Yeah, I find X stops (if not receiving any input??) if all lines have and ampersand after them. And, X will stop if all apps that don't have said ampersand are killed. So, remove it from the Compiz line, which should indeed be last. My setup is nearly identical.

ninjaprawn · 2008-12-17 10:50:12

i'll try that later, thanks

ninjaprawn · 2008-12-17 19:30:13

ok, getting there, after removing the '&', X fires up for a second, and I see lxpanel at the bottom of the screen, then X kills itself. the following error is in the output!

(emerald:3370): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object-ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

ninjaprawn · 2008-12-17 19:43:25

ok, getting somewhere. i have managed to get X up and running. my ~/.xinitrc

# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
xset s off
parcellite &

#tint &
#stalonetray -w &
nitrogen --restore &
#xcompmgr -c -D20 &
#DISPLAY=:0.1 openbox &
#exec openbox-session

lxpanel &
emerald &
exec fusion-icon #ccp

however, no window decoration! it was the command compiz that caused X to fail, and ccp that gave the error;

# (emerald:3370): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object-ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)'

i think??

after killing X, back to command line, i seem to have GLib errors for lxpanel as well!

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2008-12-17 19:48:19)

hk2717 · 2008-12-20 09:40:01

Anyone can deform the cube into cylinder or sphere with standalone compiz-fusion? I can do so with compiz in gnome but cannot with a standalone one.

leo2501 · 2008-12-20 11:35:05

hk2717 wrote:

Anyone can deform the cube into cylinder or sphere with standalone compiz-fusion? I can do so with compiz in gnome but cannot with a standalone one.

i can't with compiz standalone too when i tried

ninjaprawn · 2008-12-20 12:50:08

does anyone know wot the following error means??

(emerald:3370): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object-ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)'

i have tried to google it, and got no-where!! im trying to run compiz-fusion as a standalone wm!

thanks

hk2717 · 2008-12-21 05:56:25

Also, can you disable the shadow for conky in standalone compiz-fusion?

pogeymanz · 2009-01-11 14:49:05

I need some help with my Compiz standalone.

How do I get stalonetray to start after compiz? I'm using the start-fusion.sh in .xinitrc method, so my start-fusion.sh looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
# add more apps here if necessary
cat `eval ~/.fehbg`
stalonetray&
volwheel&
xfce4-panel&
fusion-icon

But I used the compiz config manager to set stalonetray to ignore taskbar, ignore pager, and sticky; so compiz needs to start before stalonetray for that to work right.

my0pic · 2009-01-11 20:16:24

I have a bunch of things starting up that rely on compiz being started first so I stagger their start with a sleep command eg

sleep 10 && stalonetray &

pogeymanz · 2009-03-25 23:39:52

I need some help with compiz standalone that I haven't been able to figure out.

Sometimes, for seemingly no reason, mouse clicks on the root window don't work. This includes middle-click for compiz-deskmenu and scrolling for switching workspaces.

But then sometimes it works fine. It's very random. Even how long the problem persists seems random.

This does not happen if I run compiz in XFCE. It doesn't happen in any other WM/DE combo. Does this happen to everyone else? I can't find a solution on the google; but that's probably because so few people use Compiz standalone.

EDIT: Also, how do you get conky working?

Last edited by pogeymanz (2009-03-25 23:40:33)

leo2501 · 2009-03-26 00:07:46

pogeymanz wrote:

I need some help with compiz standalone that I haven't been able to figure out.
Sometimes, for seemingly no reason, mouse clicks on the root window don't work. This includes middle-click for compiz-deskmenu and scrolling for switching workspaces.
But then sometimes it works fine. It's very random. Even how long the problem persists seems random.
This does not happen if I run compiz in XFCE. It doesn't happen in any other WM/DE combo. Does this happen to everyone else? I can't find a solution on the google; but that's probably because so few people use Compiz standalone.
EDIT: Also, how do you get conky working?

mmm really cant help here, cause i only use compiz a few times, and with dmenu, hope you try it! cause you will never do "click" anywhere else! only alt+p <app>+enter

EDIT: i tryed, but clicking in the background (cause theres no desktop) doesn't do anything, this behaviour is the right for me, cause i dont configure any plugin to tell it to open a command or something when i do this, maybe you need to look in the commands section of compiz via ccsm i think, to add this desired behaviour, but try dmenu!

Last edited by leo2501 (2009-03-26 00:10:13)

pogeymanz · 2009-03-26 00:17:04

That's the problem. I do have commands mapped to right-click and to scrolling on the root window.

While I have been meaning to play with dmenu, I'd like to figure this out.

my0pic · 2009-03-26 00:31:13

I have compiz-deskmenu mapped to right click and scroll changes workspaces with mouse focus 'on click' switched off. The same happens here. What I do to fix it is to just mouse over a window or the panel (I use bmpanel) and then right click works. No clue as to what causes this but for me it's only slightly annoying.

leo2501 · 2009-03-26 01:03:13

maybe this interest you guys

*Box-like menu with Dzen2
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=390680

markp1989 · 2009-05-12 20:01:26

can some one help me, i get now window manager running with my .xinitrc

xbindkeys &
conky -c ~/24/CTU3.conky &
conky -c ~/24/CTU2.conky &
conky -c ~/24/CTU.conky & 
feh --bg-scale /home/mark/24/Ctu2.png &
fbpanel &
#exec /usr/bin/openbox
emerald &
exec fusion-icon #ccp

Thanks Markp1989

zephyrus17 · 2009-08-13 09:05:09

How do you get gdm to read from .xintrc? What is the "Xclient script" that gdm refers to?

zodmaner · 2009-08-13 10:08:40

zephyrus17 wrote:

How do you get gdm to read from .xintrc? What is the "Xclient script" that gdm refers to?

You have to mark your .xinitrc script as executable (i.e. $ chmod a+x .xinitrc).

Last edited by zodmaner (2009-08-13 10:13:29)

zephyrus17 · 2009-08-13 10:33:47

It is.

karabaja4 · 2009-08-13 14:20:04

my0pic wrote:

I have compiz-deskmenu mapped to right click and scroll changes workspaces with mouse focus 'on click' switched off. The same happens here. What I do to fix it is to just mouse over a window or the panel (I use bmpanel) and then right click works. No clue as to what causes this but for me it's only slightly annoying.

It's the buggy compiz-deskmenu. Not only that, but it opens only in specific time interval between mouse up and mouse down (try opening it with shorter or longer mouse clicks, it wouldn't open, at least for me).

If you look at the code, there is a line in the beginning that says "sleep(x)" where x is some interval which apperantly does something to simulate delay between clicks. Any click interval that is out of range of the specified doesn't work. Also, if I remember right, it wouldn't open on the edge of the screen?

It is VERY annoying for me when I click the root menu and it doesn't open.

That is why I found better replacement for compiz-deskmenu. It is called myGtkMenu. It's far less buggy than compiz-deskmenu and it has a nice config file. You configure it the same way as compiz-deskmenu.

zephyrus17 · 2009-08-14 12:07:16

mygtkmenu doesn't exist an any repo. Did you source it from the internet?

Or, do you have anyway to configure compiz-deskmenu so that it only comes out when I right click on the desktop and not inside other applications, i.e., firefox? I still want the firefox context right-click menu. The original configuration makes it come out everywhere.

karabaja4 · 2009-08-14 22:07:48

zephyrus17 wrote:

mygtkmenu doesn't exist an any repo. Did you source it from the internet?
Or, do you have anyway to configure compiz-deskmenu so that it only comes out when I right click on the desktop and not inside other applications, i.e., firefox? I still want the firefox context right-click menu. The original configuration makes it come out everywhere.

It's not in the repo, just compile it yourself

As for the compiz-deskmenu, I have no idea. As far as I remember it only opened when I clicked the desktop (wallpaper).

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