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Hi, I've been trying for the past few days to get transperancy to work but with no luck. I try to enable the desktop cube, opacity and wobbly windows but none of it works. Maybe I'm doing somthing wrong.
this is what I mean:
That is the gnome-terminal with full transparency and yet it just tries to mimic the desktop background and not what I want.
Here is another example:
the awn is suppose to be 3d and it's not. Also it has the 3d-spotline turn affect and it's not workoing aswell
Last edited by abraham10 (2010-06-26 19:10:19)
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If all you want is transparency, then remove compiz and go to the gconf editor, then enable apps > metacity > general > compositing_manager.
Personally, I'd rather be back in Hobbiton.
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check again I edited my original post...
Last edited by abraham10 (2010-06-25 22:52:46)
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Well yup you were right about the transparency it fixed the gnome-terminal and awn but I also add transparency to my gnome panel and it didn't fix that.
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If I didn't know better I would say that compiz isn't even running. If what Anikom suggested worked then metacity is still the manager. You need to select compiz from the fusion-icon menu.
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yup your right now how can I switch it to compiz?
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I did fusion-icon --reset in the terminal and it sort of work but I lost the exitt minimizee, and maximize buttonns and I have a tremendouse lag on the graphics.
Last edited by abraham10 (2010-06-25 23:46:53)
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you should start reading the wiki. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compiz
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Right click on the fusion-icon icon and there is an option to change the window manager.
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Whenever I let compiz be my default WM I lose the exit, minimize.. etc bottons and the overall performance goes down.
I have ubuntu installed aswell with compiz completely enabled with cube effects, transparency and everything else, but I don't get as many problems... after some tinkering this is what I have so far:
I know it's not much butI just stuck with metacity as my WM and will postpone Compiz for a while...
Also I did take the time to read the compiz wiki mentioned for the second time. I edited my xorg.conf file just like it said and nothing, I even disabled the check refresh rate in the compiz general settings and switch to manual but no luck.
Last edited by abraham10 (2010-06-26 03:27:45)
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Do you have emerald components installed? Try emerald --replace
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Yes emerald was installed, this is what pacman says:
pacman -Ss emerald
community/emerald 0.8.4-2 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion-gtk) [installed]
Emerald window decorator
community/emerald-themes 0.6.0-2 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion-gtk) [installed]
Themes for emerald
And compiz:
pacman -Ss compiz
community/ccsm 0.8.4-1 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-gtk compiz-fusion-kde) [installed]
Compizconfig Settings Manager in Python
community/compiz-bcop 0.8.4-1 [installed]
Compiz option code generator
community/compiz-core 0.8.6-2 (compiz compiz-kde compiz-gtk compiz-fusion) [installed]
Composite manager for Aiglx and Xgl
community/compiz-decorator-gtk 0.8.6-2 (compiz compiz-kde compiz-gtk compiz-fusion) [installed]
Compiz decorator for GNOME
community/compiz-decorator-kde 0.8.6-2 (compiz compiz-kde compiz-gtk compiz-fusion) [installed]
Compiz decorator for KDE
community/compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.8.6-1 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-gtk compiz-fusion-kde) [installed]
Compiz Fusion Extra plugins
community/compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.8.6-1 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion-gtk) [installed]
Compiz Fusion Main plugins
community/compiz-manager 0.6.0-3
Compiz Fusion Starter Program
community/compizconfig-backend-gconf 0.8.4-1 (compiz-fusion-gtk compiz-fusion) [installed]
Compizconfig backend for gconf
community/compizconfig-backend-kconfig 0.8.4-1 (compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion) [installed]
Compizconfig backend for kconfig
community/compizconfig-python 0.8.4-1 [installed]
Compizconfig bindings for python
community/emerald 0.8.4-2 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion-gtk) [installed]
Emerald window decorator
community/emerald-themes 0.6.0-2 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion-gtk) [installed]
Themes for emerald
community/fusion-icon 20091023-1 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion-gtk) [installed]
Simple tray icon for compiz
community/libcompizconfig 0.8.4-2 [installed]
Compiz configuration system library
Fusion:
pacman -Ss fusion
community/ccsm 0.8.4-1 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-gtk compiz-fusion-kde) [installed]
Compizconfig Settings Manager in Python
community/compiz-core 0.8.6-2 (compiz compiz-kde compiz-gtk compiz-fusion) [installed]
Composite manager for Aiglx and Xgl
community/compiz-decorator-gtk 0.8.6-2 (compiz compiz-kde compiz-gtk compiz-fusion) [installed]
Compiz decorator for GNOME
community/compiz-decorator-kde 0.8.6-2 (compiz compiz-kde compiz-gtk compiz-fusion) [installed]
Compiz decorator for KDE
community/compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.8.6-1 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-gtk compiz-fusion-kde) [installed]
Compiz Fusion Extra plugins
community/compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.8.6-1 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion-gtk) [installed]
Compiz Fusion Main plugins
community/compiz-manager 0.6.0-3
Compiz Fusion Starter Program
community/compizconfig-backend-gconf 0.8.4-1 (compiz-fusion-gtk compiz-fusion) [installed]
Compizconfig backend for gconf
community/compizconfig-backend-kconfig 0.8.4-1 (compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion) [installed]
Compizconfig backend for kconfig
community/emerald 0.8.4-2 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion-gtk) [installed]
Emerald window decorator
community/emerald-themes 0.6.0-2 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion-gtk) [installed]
Themes for emerald
community/fusion-icon 20091023-1 (compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-kde compiz-fusion-gtk) [installed]
Simple tray icon for compiz
Last edited by abraham10 (2010-06-26 18:17:03)
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Also I tried installing compiz-manager which was not installed. Then I ran it in term and got this:
compiz-manager
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: 00:02.0 0300: 8086:a011 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1024x600) 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 (cube) - Warn: Failed to load slide: freedesktop
Last edited by abraham10 (2010-06-26 18:29:08)
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