Compiz installed by default in Ubuntu

[Amaranth]

desktop-effects
Reverse Depends:
ubuntu-desktop


compiz
Reverse Depends:
cairo-clock
desktop-effects


8) :D

[mikedee]

Big thanks to gandalfn - he put in a lot of work to make this happen (including patches to compiz), it didn't just happen by itself :)

[RYX]

So you're really serious with this? Still sounds like a dream to me :D ... Big thanks to gandalfn from my side, too!!

[amgeex]

Could you post a link or something? Thanks.

[idnzor]

yeah this is cool stuff, i dont want to start a flamewar but im glad compiz made the cut, congrats to allthe team

[RAOF]

In other news, Gnome-Compiz-Manager is currently sitting in Feisty's NEW queue :).

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+queue

Amaranth, are you serious? My (updated ~12 hrs ago) desktop-effects & ubuntu-desktop don't know about each other :). Plus, in order for ubuntu-desktop to depend on desktop-effects, Compiz would need to be in Main, and it's still in Universe.

Edit: Ok, so you're too hot-off-the-press for me. A very recent change :). Awesome.

[wfarr]

That's fantastic! =D

[imnotpc]

Excellent job gandalfn! Woo Hoo!!

[DivineGod]

I can confiorm that desktop-effects indeed is a dependency to ubuntu-desktop and that compiz is inside desktop-effects. I also like to add that I have it installed and it doesn't work. Theres is a small program to launch desktop-effects and it can't load compiz. The weird thing is, that when following other guides compiz does work. And I have Beryl installed at this moment also and there haven't been a problem between the two.

[mikedee]

And I have Beryl installed at this moment also and there haven't been a problem between the two.

Yes, just for the record, a beryl install will not conflict with a compiz install. They will both install their plugins to different directories and they use different binary names.

[DivineGod]

And I have Beryl installed at this moment also and there haven't been a problem between the two.

Yes, just for the record, a beryl install will not conflict with a compiz install. They will both install their plugins to different directories and they use different binary names.

I know that. I merely mentioned it so as it wouldn't be traced/linked to that. I tried submitting a bug report earlier to ubuntu launchpad, but I couldn't (503 error).

[DivineGod]

Actually I just found out that having beryl-manager on by default is not a good idea as it actually interferes with desktop-effects abilities to switch to compiz.