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janwil

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From: Tartu, Estonia

Registered: 2003-08-15

Posts: 88

Trying to get Xgl working following Wiki docs

Hi all,

I downloaded Xgl stuff from shadowhand's repo and am trying to get it work now with Gnome or KDE. I can run

startxgl 1 gnome nvidia

and play with jelly windows, so Xgl is in principle running.

Next I tried to follow the suggestions given in Arch Wiki and let GDM/KDM run compiz. However, I had lo luck in that.

First, for GDM the wiki advises to modify /opt/gnome/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. I do not have this file, it is does not come with gdm package. I copied the file from abs tree (it was there), but modifying it following Wiki did not give me fancy windows under Gnome.

Next I tried KDM. Wiki tells me to find and modify the line

ServerCmd=/usr/bin/X -br

in /opt/kde/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. This time I had the file, but not the line in that file. I added the modified line by hand and did all the rest suggested by Wiki, but it did not give me fancy windows. There was the abovementioned line in the file /opt/kde/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.default, modifying that one had no effect either.

Can anyone please help me sorting this out? What am I doing wrong and what should be the correct way to get, say, KDE working with Xgl?

Best regards,
Jan

paulicat

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Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 40

Re: Trying to get Xgl working following Wiki docs

If you have the gdm package installed, it has to have gdm.conf. So, in this case, do the following:
Remove the gdm.conf you manually copied to your system.
Then as root type: slocate -u
then locate gdm.conf

Now go and edit the file found with the locate command.

Before all of this though, make sure you do have the gdm package installed first.

janwil

Member

From: Tartu, Estonia

Registered: 2003-08-15

Posts: 88

Re: Trying to get Xgl working following Wiki docs

If you have the gdm package installed, it has to have gdm.conf. So, in this case, do the following:
Remove the gdm.conf you manually copied to your system.
Then as root type: slocate -u
then locate gdm.conf

Now go and edit the file found with the locate command.

Before all of this though, make sure you do have the gdm package installed first.

Of course I have gdm package installed. Still, no gdm.conf:

# pacman -Ql gdm | grep conf
gdm /opt/gnome/etc/gdm/custom.conf
gdm /opt/gnome/share/gconf/
gdm /opt/gnome/share/gconf/schemas/
gdm /opt/gnome/share/gconf/schemas/gdm.schemas
gdm /opt/gnome/share/gdm/defaults.conf
gdm /opt/gnome/share/gdm/factory-defaults.conf

Locating gdm.conf gave the following result:

# slocate -u
# locate gdm.conf
/var/abs/extra/gnome/gdm/gdm.conf

so that's the abs version I was talking about.

Any other ideas?

Jan

ingvildr

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From: Brighton, England

Registered: 2005-04-19

Posts: 203

Re: Trying to get Xgl working following Wiki docs

i think the new gdm uses custom.conf for user changes and default.conf as its base default configuration file.

alski

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Registered: 2006-05-17

Posts: 11

Re: Trying to get Xgl working following Wiki docs

it is in custom.conf.  I followed the GUI style setup on the gentoo wiki because I too couldn't find gdm.conf.  Later I looked and the changes were reflected to custom.conf.