Where found Documentation about CompiZ-fusion

[earlati]

I 'm looking for docs or tutorial explining how use and configure the features of compiZ-fusion.

Can someone tell me where I can find some of such tutorial ?

Regards, EnZo

[Eck]

Well there are plenty of places. One such place this forum. Another is your distributions documentation wiki. You can go to compiz-fusion.org and click the link to the wiki among other things there. The opensuse.org wiki has several pages devoted to these things, even if that is not your distro. Most of those pages have been updated regularly recently since the distro just came out and Compiz Fusion is one of its selling points. Still have to do an install for the whole thing to work but they make it pretty easy. It's usually not too difficult on other distro's either.

Essentially, get your video drivers setup for 3D, install Compiz Fusion however your distro does it, then read a bit from some of those places for configuration. Most package maintainers have nowadays put some reasonable defaults into ccsm so you can just open it, make sure you're using the flat-file configuration in Preferences, and turn on some more plugins. If you turn on Animations, turn off Minimize Effect and Fading Windows since Animation takes over those things. If on KDE, turn off Enable Translucency Effects in KControl-Desktop-Window Behavior so it won't interfere. Remove the Desktop Preview and Pager Applet before starting Compiz and add it back in after Compiz has started for it to work properly and switch viewports with a click. If you use on an NVidia card:

export __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp &

you'll get Compiz to automatically switch KDE from whatever you have it on to 1 Desktop with 4 viewports, which is what the pager needs.

If you don't use that extra stuff you need to do that yourself from KControl-Desktop-Multiple Desktops before adding the pager applet back to the taskbar. Works the same, but Compiz can do it automatically. If you put it on automatic, doing:

kwin --replace &
and
killall kde-window-decorator &

will put the Multiple Desktops back to how it was before starting Compiz (and turn off Compiz, restoring the normal desktop.)

And put your favorite decorator into the ccsm options:

either
kde-window-decorator --replace
gtk-window-decorator --replace
or
emerald --replace

so you won't need to start it yourself.

And before all this you have to do, for Nvidia:
su -
put in your root password.
nvidia-xconfig --composite

and restart the computer. Then you can turn on Compiz Fusion (assuming you've installed it).

[Fyda]

If you're looking for information on using the features of Compiz Fusion, there's the Compiz Fusion Wiki (http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org), which is a work in progress.

[earlati]

If you're looking for information on using the features of Compiz Fusion, there's the Compiz Fusion Wiki (http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org), which is a work in progress.

thank, it seems the place I' m looking for.

Eck, thank also for your intro, about but I 'm already installed compiZ and it is running.
What I'm looking is only the info about it's feature ( the wiki.compiz-fusion.org site )

BTW what CCSM stand for ?


regards, Enzo

[earlati]

BTW what CCSM stand for ?




please , don't look at this my last question.
I have just find an explation on that on the wiki.compiz-fusion.org/CCSM

regards, enZo