I'm not sure where I went wrong.

[drinkymilk]

I recently installed Ubuntu gutsy and i had the setting on visual effect on extra. now what i didn't realize is that Ubuntu comes with compiz. i tried installing it, nothing changed uninstalled reinstalled again, using this. (http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=5019) i also installed the plugins. so i tried using the compizeconfig settings manager in system>preferences and it won't even open. when i try to set the visual effect back to extra, nothing looks right. and it kind of looks like a skipping dvd movie around the screen...

I don't know what i did wrong. and I don't know what to do from here. Please help...

~tim

[Deciare]

The script you used installs several additional plugins that aren't normally available to Gutsy, so you didn't do something totally pointless. :)

You mentioned that the CompizConfig Settings Manager won't open, so let's find a little more information about what's going on. Open up a console window (from ]Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and enter:
ccsm
What output do you receive on the console?

Also, to start Compiz, try entering this command into a console window:
compiz-manager &
Does that look any better than setting visual effects to Extra? Ubuntu's Compiz packages replace /usr/bin/compiz with a script that does a couple of things differently from the standard /usr/bin/compiz you just installed, so the Visual Effects control panel won't quite start it with the right parameters...

[drinkymilk]

ok here is what i got for ccsm:

tim@tim-desktop:~$ ccsm
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/ccsm", line 37, in <module>
import compizconfig
ImportError: No module named compizconfig
tim@tim-desktop:~$


and the second:

tim@tim-desktop:~$ comiz-manager &
[1] 9906
tim@tim-desktop:~$ bash: comiz-manager: command not found

[some-guy]

I think that it is broken I don't know where but I'm completely redesigning the script from scratch, so open a terminal and run

rm -rf ~/.compiz
sudo apt-get install compiz-gnome compiz-gtk compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion* compiz-bcop

after that go to System > Administration > Restricted Drivers Manager and install the restricted driver, then let us know which one it was :D

[drinkymilk]

I don't think this was the result you were looking for:tim@tim-desktop:~$ rm -rf ~/.compiz
tim@tim-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install compiz-gnome compize-gtk compizeconfig-setting-manager compiz-fusion* compiz-bcop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
compiz-gnome is already the newest version.
E: Couldn't find package compize-gtk

[Deciare]

It looks like you installed another version of Compiz over what you already had?

Try this command instead, to force a reinstallation of the packages even if they are already installed:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall compiz-gnome compize-gtk compizeconfig-setting-manager compiz-fusion* compiz-bcop

[drinkymilk]

Grunt.... should I purge compiz and start fresh?

tim@tim-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall compiz-gnome compiz-gtk compizcomfig-setting-manager compiz-fuzion* compiz-bcop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package compiz-gtk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
compiz-gnome
E: Package compiz-gtk has no installation candidate
tim@tim-desktop:~$

[Deciare]

Yes, purging should work as well.

Remove compiz-gtk from the list, too.

[drinkymilk]

ok so I purged compiz, twice to make sure. trice to make extra sure. and then again in root to make sure again. the last time i did it i got this:root@tim-desktop:~# apt-get --purge remove compiz-gnome compiz-gtk compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion* compiz-bcop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package compiz-gnome is not installed, so not removed
Package compiz-gtk is not installed, so not removed
Package compizconfig-settings-manager is not installed, so not removed
Note, selecting compiz-fusion-plugins-extra for regex 'compiz-fusion*'
Note, selecting compiz-fusion-plugins-main for regex 'compiz-fusion*'
E: Couldn't find package compiz-fusion*
root@tim-desktop:~#


I am concerned about this one:Note, selecting compiz-fusion-plugins-extra for regex 'compiz-fusion*'
Note, selecting compiz-fusion-plugins-main for regex 'compiz-fusion*'

I made a mess didn't I :mad:

[Deciare]

No, that's perfectly normal. You input "compiz-fusion*" as one of the packages to remove, so it was trying to search for any package whose name begins with "compiz-fusion". Unfortunately, it didn't find any, which is why printed that error.

At this point, it's very unclear as to which packages you have installed, so could you please show us a list of every Compiz-related package you have installed? Post the output of running the following command in a console:
dpkg -l | grep -i compiz
I would have asked you for this from the start if I knew the situation was more complicated than I had imagined...

[drinkymilk]

Ok here is the output

root@tim-desktop:~# dpkg -l | grep -i compiz
ii compiz-core 1:0.6.2+git20071119-0ubuntu1~gutsy1 OpenGL window and compositing manager
ii compiz-dev 1:0.6.2+git20071119-0ubuntu1~gutsy1 OpenGL window and compositing manager - deve
ii compiz-plugins 1:0.6.2+git20071119-0ubuntu1~gutsy1 OpenGL window and compositing manager - plug
ii libcompizconfig-backend-gconf 0.5.2+git20071010-0ubuntu1 Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositi
ii libcompizconfig0 0.5.2+git20070919-0ubuntu3 Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositi
ii libdecoration0 1:0.6.2+git20071119-0ubuntu1~gutsy1 Compiz window decoration library
root@tim-desktop:~#

Should I purge those listed as well?

[some-guy]

yes, purge them then reinstall everything

[drinkymilk]

ok does this mean that lbconfig is in use and cannot be purged?
or does it mean nothing?

Removing libdecoration0 ...
Purging configuration files for libdecoration0 ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
root@tim-desktop:~#

ok should i install using some-guy's scripts?

[some-guy]

I think you can safely ignore that, and no don't use my scripts
Since you have nvidia make sure you have the restricted driver installed then, try running nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals
nvidia-xconfig -d 24
and install compiz-fusion from apt

[Deciare]

Okay, you've managed to uninstall the stale bits successfully. Well done! :D

Now we can install from Ubuntu's packages. Start simple. By that, I mean using a minimum-length command line and letting dependencies pull in the rest (as opposed to specifying each package manually).
sudo apt-get install compiz emerald
How does that work for you?

[drinkymilk]

Yeah!! alright it works. I'm not sure if I should install any plugins now. I think i will mess with this for right now. But if i did decide to install some plugins what should I do? apt-get install ...... ?

So compiz config still doesn't open from system->preferences. but i do have cool visual effects without funky glitches.
Thanks for your help!!!

[some-guy]

purge compizconfig-settings-manager, then install it, as for the plugins, don't use any scripts, use this (http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=5303) guide, it is known to work with gutsy users :D

[drinkymilk]

i just found emerald theme manager under system->preferences. but I when i try to purge compizconfig-settings-manager is says that it not installed.

[some-guy]

install it, purge it, install it again so all that remained of my script will be removed :D

[drinkymilk]

i did like this to solve the problem:

sudo -i
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

now all works again.!!!

thanks again for the help

~tim

[some-guy]

no problem :D