Compiz Fusion Repository

v1_ad · 2007-10-09 12:53:53

venky80 wrote:

cant seem to get the fusion icon to run outside of terminal, as soon as i close the terminal compiz also shuts down...how to make it work without the terminal...I have tried the run command in kde doesn't work

Why can't you write a simle script, that launches compiz (fusion-icon and fusion-icon-tray, as I did) and run it outside of terminal ?

shimon · 2007-10-09 13:55:48

joente wrote:
shimon wrote:
I had the problem of dbus mentioned above, thanks to nesl247 script now fusion-icon doesn't complain about dbus.
Anyway, I still get no window borders. fusion-icon doesn't crash, but I get no window borders. If I use ``compiz --replace'' it tries to replace kwin, but it gives Segmentation fault and I end up with no borders again.
I'm using the latest KDE from testing on a dual-headed nvida with Xinerama. May xinerama be interfering with compiz fusion?
I appreciate any help from you guys!!
I have the same configuration and the exact same problem. With the help from nesl247 fusion-icon doesn't complain but i still get no window borders and no effects. Just running 'compiz --replace' ends up with a segmentation fault.
(edit: Just tried without xinerama but it still doesn't work)

does anyone has an idea of what can be happening for us here??
maybe is it the fact that we are using nvidia cards??

thank you guys in advance!!

wantilles · 2007-10-09 14:17:17

shimon wrote:

does anyone has an idea of what can be happening for us here??
maybe is it the fact that we are using nvidia cards?

I think the problem lies in KDE and its Windows Manager's - KWin - many fundamental deficiencies.

KWin and KDE always had problems with 3D desktops (beryl, compiz-fusion) and needed "special treatment" in the configuration options of the 3D desktops.

PS: Running here compiz-fusion-git, in both architectures, with nVidia 6xxx cards, and Gnome 2.18 (and now 2.20) flawlessly.

Last edited by wantilles (2007-10-09 14:19:30)

venky80 · 2007-10-10 04:48:15

v1_ad wrote:

venky80 wrote:
cant seem to get the fusion icon to run outside of terminal, as soon as i close the terminal compiz also shuts down...how to make it work without the terminal...I have tried the run command in kde doesn't work
Why can't you write a simle script, that launches compiz (fusion-icon and fusion-icon-tray, as I did) and run it outside of terminal ?

if i knew:(

shimon · 2007-10-10 05:51:34

wantilles wrote:

shimon wrote:
does anyone has an idea of what can be happening for us here??
maybe is it the fact that we are using nvidia cards?
I think the problem lies in KDE and its Windows Manager's - KWin - many fundamental deficiencies.
KWin and KDE always had problems with 3D desktops (beryl, compiz-fusion) and needed "special treatment" in the configuration options of the 3D desktops.

PS: Running here compiz-fusion-git, in both architectures, with nVidia 6xxx cards, and Gnome 2.18 (and now 2.20) flawlessly.

Oh! I see. Thank you for explaining! Could you redirect us to some site that may have useful tips on what to change on the configuration of compiz-fusion so it may work on KDE?

Sincerely, thank you in advance!

joente · 2007-10-10 10:55:39

shimon wrote:

wantilles wrote:
I think the problem lies in KDE and its Windows Manager's - KWin - many fundamental deficiencies.
KWin and KDE always had problems with 3D desktops (beryl, compiz-fusion) and needed "special treatment" in the configuration options of the 3D desktops.

PS: Running here compiz-fusion-git, in both architectures, with nVidia 6xxx cards, and Gnome 2.18 (and now 2.20) flawlessly.
Oh! I see. Thank you for explaining! Could you redirect us to some site that may have useful tips on what to change on the configuration of compiz-fusion so it may work on KDE?
Sincerely, thank you in advance!

yesterday I removed all the compiz fusion components, installed gnome 2.18 next to KDE and reinstalled compiz fusion. I tried to start 'fusion-icon' in gnome but the result is the same. For some reason compiz doesn't run on my system.

v1_ad · 2007-10-11 12:35:05

joente wrote:

yesterday I removed all the compiz fusion components, installed gnome 2.18 next to KDE and reinstalled compiz fusion. I tried to start 'fusion-icon' in gnome but the result is the same. For some reason compiz doesn't run on my system.

Compiz-fusion is compiled against gnome 2.20 (from the wiki page). This means that You need install gnome 2.20 from testing or compile it yourself within gnome 2.18.
Good luck

Last edited by v1_ad (2007-10-11 12:56:15)

MAC!EK · 2007-10-12 00:12:36

I'm still having the problem with missing icons in ccsm, I did all from wiki and it didn't helped.
I found info that ccsm depends on librsvg2-common, but not directly:

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?p=31555

In Arch repos and AUR there's no such package, librsvg doesn't seem to be the one.
Any ideas?

zodmaner · 2007-10-12 07:45:12

Do 64 bit user need to upgrade to GNOME 2.20 now?

joente · 2007-10-12 16:19:01

v1_ad wrote:

joente wrote:
yesterday I removed all the compiz fusion components, installed gnome 2.18 next to KDE and reinstalled compiz fusion. I tried to start 'fusion-icon' in gnome but the result is the same. For some reason compiz doesn't run on my system.
Compiz-fusion is compiled against gnome 2.20 (from the wiki page). This means that You need install gnome 2.20 from testing or compile it yourself within gnome 2.18.
Good luck

I installed gnome 2.20 from testing but it's still not working...

v1_ad · 2007-10-13 11:42:40

joente wrote:

I installed gnome 2.20 from testing but it's still not working...

You need atk,gtk2,libwnck,libx11 and maybe something else from testing too.

joente · 2007-10-14 11:44:48

v1_ad wrote:

joente wrote:
I installed gnome 2.20 from testing but it's still not working...
You need atk,gtk2,libwnck,libx11 and maybe something else from testing too.

First of all, thanks for the help! I have those packages installed from testing. At this moment I'm trying with the following packages from testing: atk,db,gail,gconf,gnome-desktop,gnome-keyring,gnome-vfs,gtk2,heimdal,jdk,libbonobo,libbonoboui,libgnome,libgnomecanvas,libgnomeui,libwnck,libx11,smbclient

The bad thing is that everything looks good, I only get a segmentation fault and loose the window borders.
My videocard is a GeForce 7600 GT. thx!

nesl247 · 2007-10-14 14:41:20

paul2lv, please contact me. I've got the script fixed.

paul2lv · 2007-10-14 20:29:30

Well, the time has come...
Gnome 2.20 is out of testing and the 64-bit packages (both git and release) have been rebuilt.
Let me know if there are any problems.

juan_sck · 2007-10-14 20:36:58

hello, I have been running fusion for a few days and it works quite well, thanks for your job dude. but I have two little problems:
There are no icons in the fusion tray icon menu (tray icon is X) and settings manager
after update my kde's menu shortcuts are missing.

Did I forget installing any package? any fix?

thx.

paul2lv · 2007-10-14 21:05:34

juan_sck wrote:

hello, I have been running fusion for a few days and it works quite well, thanks for your job dude. but I have two little problems:
There are no icons in the fusion tray icon menu (tray icon is X) and settings manager
after update my kde's menu shortcuts are missing.
Did I forget installing any package? any fix?
thx.

See here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Com … g_in_menus

MAC!EK · 2007-10-14 21:33:43

Mayby it helps for the fusion tray icon, but it doesn't help for the icons in ccsm.

fumbles · 2007-10-15 04:36:00

matiit wrote:

I have this error while I try to run fusion-icon

[mat@xmat ~]$ fusion-icon
 * Detected Session: kde
 * Searching for installed applications...
Backend     : ini
Integration : true
Profile     : default
Adding plugin decoration (decoration)
Initializing decoration options...done
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/fusion-icon", line 57, in <module>
    from FusionIcon import interface
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/FusionIcon/interface.py", line 143, in <module>
    session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 216, in __new__
    mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 105, in __new__
    bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 121, in __new__
    bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session
[mat@xmat ~]

dbus is running.

Me too!
Using Gnome 2.20, on x86_64.

Thanks.

zodmaner · 2007-10-15 04:48:51

After doing an update, Fusion tray icon disappear from tray (it used to work before I do the update). Trying both methods from ArchWiki didn't help. I'm running 64 bit.

I also got this same error when running 'fusion-icon-preferences':

fumbles wrote:

matiit wrote:

I have this error while I try to run fusion-icon

[mat@xmat ~]$ fusion-icon
 * Detected Session: kde
 * Searching for installed applications...
Backend     : ini
Integration : true
Profile     : default
Adding plugin decoration (decoration)
Initializing decoration options...done
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/fusion-icon", line 57, in <module>
    from FusionIcon import interface
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/FusionIcon/interface.py", line 143, in <module>
    session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 216, in __new__
    mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 105, in __new__
    bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 121, in __new__
    bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session
[mat@xmat ~]

dbus is running.

Me too!
Using Gnome 2.20, on x86_64.

Thanks.

Last edited by zodmaner (2007-10-15 05:20:46)

nesl247 · 2007-10-15 05:50:57

Guys, please learn to read. You need a dbus session as well as the dbus service started. So you can do dbus-launch --exit-with-session fusion-icon . Then fusion-icon-tray and fusion-icon-preferences will work.

zodmaner · 2007-10-15 06:07:05

nesl247 wrote:

Guys, please learn to read. You need a dbus session as well as the dbus service started. So you can do dbus-launch --exit-with-session fusion-icon . Then fusion-icon-tray and fusion-icon-preferences will work.

Thanks for answering, nesl247. I've make sure that I've dbus daemon running and executed 'dbus-launch --exit-with-session fusion-icon' before starting the fusion-icon but still the 'fusion-icon-preferences' and the tray icon won't work.

Here is the message I got when I executed 'fusion-icon-preferences':

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/fusion-icon-preferences", line 275, in <module>
    obj = session_bus.get_object(_interface, '/org/compiz_fusion/FusionIcon')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 240, in get_object
    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 237, in __init__
    self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 179, in activate_name_owner
    self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 277, in start_service_by_name
    'su', (bus_name, flags)))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 603, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.compiz_fusion.FusionIcon was not provided by any .service files

Which (as you can see) is a different error message from what I get before.

Last edited by zodmaner (2007-10-15 07:04:42)

kishd · 2007-10-15 07:17:29

zodmaster, i used "exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session --auto-syntax startkde " in my .xinitrc to start kde and then everything seemed to work.

zodmaner · 2007-10-15 13:22:20

I manages to get Compiz Fusion to work by running

fusion-icon

and

emerald --replace

But I still can't get tray icon to work. Noted that for me tray icon have stopped working since 20071011 update.

Running 'fusion-icon-preferences' command still gives me the same error as before.

Oh well, at least it (partially) works now.

UPDATE: OK, I manages to get fusion-icon-preferences command to work now. (Yay!) The only thing that is not working now is the tray icon.

UPDATE2: Hm... Reading really DID help. I just noticed that now you need to run fusion-icon-tray to have a tray icon. (Before this you only need to run fusion-icon to have a tray icon). Sorry to bother you, nesl247. I really, really appreciate your and paul2lv work on maintaining Compiz Fusion repositories.

Last edited by zodmaner (2007-10-15 16:39:10)

fumbles · 2007-10-15 15:53:20

nesl247 wrote:

Guys, please learn to read. You need a dbus session as well as the dbus service started. So you can do dbus-launch --exit-with-session fusion-icon . Then fusion-icon-tray and fusion-icon-preferences will work.

[EDIT]<del>All that gives me is <del>a white cube!</del> windows without boarders...</del>

OK, back to a white cube.

Orginally I got rid of it by reinstalling the nVidia driver. I'll paste the error message here later.

Thanks... (yes reading does help )

Last edited by fumbles (2007-10-16 03:38:49)

MAC!EK · 2007-10-17 07:51:26

I fixed my problem with missing ccsm icons:
It was:

$ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
/opt/kde/share:/opt/kde/share

I checked if i had libx11:
libx11-xcb (1.1.3-1)

I installed the newest libx11 (removing the libx11-xcb), then relogin, and:

$ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/opt/kde/share:/opt/kde/share

And the ccsm icons are back on their place.

Arch Linux

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