How to install COW plugin?

[sblantipodi]

As topic.

How can I install cow plugin for windows overlay under fedora core 6?

[mikedee]

COW is not a plugin it is built in, you need to start compiz with this option to use it.

--use-cow

[sblantipodi]

COW is not a plugin it is built in, you need to start compiz with this option to use it.

--use-cow

Well ok, please help me.

When I minimize and then maximize a window like Firefox or Thunerbird it dislays a black windows for a while before repainting all the window correctly.
I know that this problem should be fixed with the overlay but also with COW this problem remain.

Why?

[mikedee]

Try launching compiz with indirect rendering like this. I had exactly the same problem without it.

compiz --replace --indirect-rendering gconf

[sblantipodi]

Try launching compiz with indirect rendering like this. I had exactly the same problem without it.

compiz --replace --indirect-rendering gconf

unfortunantly I've got the some problem also in this way :(

[RYX]

Try combining cow and indirect-rendering - works better for me.compiz --use-cow --indirect-rendering --replace gconf &

[sblantipodi]

Try combining cow and indirect-rendering - works better for me.compiz --use-cow --indirect-rendering --replace gconf &

some problem :(

[Matias]

With that options everything runs smother, But I have no windows border :( and compiz-tray-icon didn't realize that compiz is active

[mikedee]

Try typing this into the console and see if you get the window borders back.

gtk-window-decorator --replace &

As far as I know compiz-tray icon will not work any more. You can write a simple script which starts the window decorator and compiz.

[Matias]

:shock: here it was gnome-window decorator, but everything is chunky with it, I got too much "framedrops".

by the way I'm using the correct setup of the xorg.conf, so is not a addrgbvisual stuff.

[mikedee]

It has been named gtk-window-decorator for a while now. It is possible that you might have an old version in a different path.

Try uninstalling all the compiz packages and then type

which gnome-window-decorator

If this finds a file then delete it and then reinstall the compiz packages. You should have gtk-window-decorator then. As far as I know it shouldn't be differently named for Red Hat.

If you compiled from source then make sure that after running configure you are shown that gnome/gtk support will be compiled. The configure script just doesnt build the gnome/gtk components if you are missing the required dev libraries. If you initially build with autogen then you will probably miss this.

By the way, you can do all this whilst you are running compiz, just restart compiz after reinstalling it. The beauty of Linux :)