Installed from git but have 2 problems

[darkshadow]

I installed Compiz from git using this tutorial viewtopic.php?f=51&t=758 (http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=758)

I have it mostly working, meaning effects work but I can't get Emerald or compiz-icon to work.

After loading compiz with "LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace --indirect-rendering --sm-disable ccp &" I have no window borders then when I try to manually start emerald I get the following output

emerald: Could not acquire decoration manager selection on screen 0 display ":0.0"

My other problem is running compiz-icon does not work and gives the following output

/usr/local/bin/compiz
/usr/local/bin/ccsm
/usr/local/bin/gtk-window-decorator
/usr/local/bin/emerald
/usr/bin/metacity
/usr/bin/kwin
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./compiz-icon.py", line 401, in <module>
gwd_backend = gconf.client_get_default()
NameError: name 'gconf' is not defined


My setup is amd64 processor + ATI mobility x700 video card
Running Ubuntu Feisty 64 bit with the open source ati video drivers

[adamk]

The second item has been reported on the bugzilla. Hopefully it will be solved shortly now that the developer has some time again.

Adam

[crdlb]

Make sure you have the "window decoration" plugin in CCSM enabled. Also try using either 'gtk-window-decorator' or 'kde-window-decorator --replace' if you've installed either of those to see if it's a problem with emerald. It sounds like a decorator is already running which would suggest the first problem. Also, in the options for the window decoration plugin, there is a command field which you should set to whatever decorator you want to use.

[darkshadow]

Thanks for the help I found out that "Window Decorations" was not checked. Once I checked it I could get Emerald and gtk-window-decorator to work.

Emerald works fine but gtk-window-decorator leaves 3mm solid white lines below my top panel and above my lower panel in Gnome.


I will just watch te git repositories until compiz-icon is updated

[eteq]

The solution to the second problem is to go manually find the compiz-icon.py file (for me it was in /usr/share/compiz-icon/), and add the line
[code:a500b]import gconf[/code:a500b] to the list of imports at the top. Then it works.

[Forlong]

Emerald works fine but gtk-window-decorator leaves 3mm solid white lines below my top panel and above my lower panel in Gnome.
In "Window Decorations" is an option "Shadow windows" - add [code:df649]!dock[/code:df649] to the input field next to that.

[darkshadow]

Thanks for the fix for gtk-window-decorator it worked and now I can go back to using it.

I had found the compiz-icon fix but thanks anyway.