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_savior_

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Registered: 2006-09-10

Posts: 5

Cannot enable composite on Edgy

Hello,

I have a problem enabling composite on Xubuntu Edgy (6.10). It worked under Dapper, so I don't think they compiled xfwm w/o composite.

I have the following lines to xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 330M/340M/350M (RS200 IGP)"
        Driver          "radeon"
        Option          "AccelMethod" "EXA"
        Option          "AGPMode" "4"
        Option          "EnablePageFlip" "true"
        Option          "DDCMode"
        Option          "RenderAccel" "true"
        Option          "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
        Option          "SubPixelOrder" "NONE"
        Option          "ColorTiling" "false"
        BusID           "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

and

Section "Extensions"
        Option          "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

But it does not work, I tried

killall xfwm4 && xfwm4 --compositor=on &

, restarted X, etc, but composite tab just does not appear.

Meanwhile, I found this:

I think from Xorg 7.1 composite is handled by video driver, not the Xorg itself.

(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Initializing extension GLX

As you can see the composite is enabled on my nvidia, although the xorg.conf hasn't been modified. So XFCE guys might need to update that part of XFCE. But anyway, I might be wrong

here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281440
My Xorg version is 7.1.1ubuntu6.

Is this true? Do I have to wait until Xfce's composite handling is updated? Or is there a way to make it work as it is?

Thanks,
Savior

thehundredthone

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Registered: 2004-02-23

Posts: 32

Re: Cannot enable composite on Edgy

i thought you needed to switch off the composite extension as otherwise it (xfwm4) complains that another compositing manager is running or summat, i could be wrong though

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_savior_

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Registered: 2006-09-10

Posts: 5

Re: Cannot enable composite on Edgy

i thought you needed to switch off the composite extension as otherwise it (xfwm4) complains that another compositing manager is running or summat, i could be wrong though

I commented out the "Extensions" section in xorg.conf, and still nothing...

Discodestroyer

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2006-11-07

Posts: 18

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Re: Cannot enable composite on Edgy

@ _savior_
Which graphic card do you have? ATI??

@ mcpish
What will happen if xubuntu gets the RC2 to its repository? Will the manually installed be overwritten?

greets

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ultranoize

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Registered: 2006-11-28

Posts: 1

Re: Cannot enable composite on Edgy

Hello Everyone. I've been having problems trying to get the composite to work. I run ubuntu edgy (now i run xubuntu if you will), i have an Nvidia GeForce2 card,  I've modified the xorg.conf file, re-installed xfce RC2 making sure the composting is checked and nothing. I was pointed to this
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubun … 02243.html which did help because i didn't have the wmtweaks.xml file. Anyone any ideas ?

SimonJ

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From: Perth

Registered: 2006-09-06

Posts: 135

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Re: Cannot enable composite on Edgy

Feisty Fawn has it as standard, might be worth an upgrade. 

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