compcomm first impressions.

[adamk]

So I decided it was time to dive in and give compcomm a try. I pulled the code, and compiled everything. I've managed to get it to launch on a system with Xgl, AIGLX (w/ an X850XT), and nvidia. So far so good. The only major problem I've run into is that I can't get any of the window decorators to work:

$ /opt/compcomm/bin/gtk-window-decorator --replace &
[1] 15767
$
(gtk-window-decorator:15767): Wnck-WARNING **: Unhandled action type (nil)

I get eight of the Wnck-WARNING messages. Emerald gives the same results.

Then, with the kde-window-decorator, I get:

$ /opt/compcomm/bin/kde-window-decorator --replace &
[3] 15770
$ kbuildsycoca running...
QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image

Any ideas or suggestions?

[vola]

how you are running compiz?

the right way is compiz --replace ccp &

so the ccp plugin will be loaded

The warnings are not a problem, the decoration plugin is active?
I suggest you to use ccsm than ccs settings, is more intuitive.

[adamk]

That fixed it...

I was actually starting it with 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa /opt/compcomm/bin/compiz --replace glib gconf cube move wobbly zoom decoration &' because I had previously had problems with the ccp plugin. I must have fixed that somewhere along the way without realizing it. When I tired it again this evening, per your suggestion, it worked just fine. I then started up ccs-settings, enabled the decoration plugin, and all is well :-) Thanks for the help.

Any idea why, though, it didn't work when trying to use the gconf and decoration plugins?

Adam

[Jupiter]

adamk
try using Kristians script it is very nice and works
viewtopic.php?f=12 (http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=12)
the script will create a file in your~/.config folder
and you will have to edit it "compiz-managerrc"

and the compiz-icon is in git. It uses Kristians script as well
and is working fine for me here.
http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/?p=us ... ;a=summary (http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/?p=users/keeguon/compiz-icon;a=summary)

[adamk]

Kristian's script works alright (as long as I still LD_PRELOAD the fglrx GL library), but I'm still curious about the possibility of loading plugins from the command line and why window decorations didn't work when I tried the command I mentioned above.

Adam