Compiz problems

Sideburns · 2012-01-12 21:22:13

I run XFCE 4.8 with Fedora 16 on both my desktop and my laptop. My desktop has nVidia graphics, and I hve the proprietary drivers, as repackaged by Fedora; my laptop has Intel graphics. Ever since "upgrading" from Fedora 14 to 16,I've been unable to get compiz to work on either of them, although it worked fine on both up until then. Compiz either crashes or fails to start and I have to use xfcwm4. Not only does this mean I can't use the desktop effects, changing from workspace to workspace is much slower, expecially on my desktop. (This may be because it's maxed out at 1GB RAM.) Does anybody else have similar issues, or a suggestion that might help?

Nice&Gently · 2012-01-13 04:10:08

By me on fedora 16 compiz runs with those packages.
rave@mother ~$ ls /media/Programme/Linux/Grafik/compiz-0.94
boost-serialization-1.46.1-4.fc16.x86_64.rpm
ccsm-0.9.4-1.fc16.noarch.rpm
compiz-0.9.4-3.fc16.x86_64.rpm
compizconfig-python-0.9.4-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm
compiz-fusion-extras-0.9.4-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm
compiz-fusion-unsupported-0.9.4-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm
compiz-gnome-0.9.4-3.fc16.x86_64.rpm
compiz-gtk-0.9.4-3.fc16.x86_64.rpm
compiz-manager-0.6.0-12.fc15.noarch.rpm
compiz-plugins-main-0.9.4-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm
emerald-0.8.5-0.4.git90c9604441.fc16.x86_64.rpm
emerald-themes-0.5.2-6.fc15.noarch.rpm
libcompizconfig-0.9.4-3.fc16.x86_64.rpm

The reason for that is that emerald only work with those packages on fedora 16.
You can download the packages at koji (fedora build system). If you don't find them for fc16, download a src.rpm for requiered verson and rebuild them with the command 'rpmbuild -rebuild packagename.src.rpm'. You will find the necessary rpm's in /home/user/rpmbuild/RPMS after that.
After a sucessfull installation you can lock the files with the yum-plugin versionlock from updating.

Last edited by Nice&Gently (2012-01-13 04:14:17)

Sideburns · 2012-01-13 08:14:22

I already have compiz installed on both computers and it worked fine on both of them right up until I "upgraded" to F16, as I stated above. Checking with yum, it looks like I have everything you list installed except for emerald, so that's probably what's wrong on the desktop. Odd, as I know it was installed before. Will install it and see what happens.

Edit:

Interesting. When I try to install emerald, I get this:

Package emerald-0.8.5-0.4.git90c9604441.fc16.i686 is obsoleted by compiz-gtk-0.9.5.92.1-0.1.gite676f1b12eb8db3a76978eed5bfc7c2cf9a0b6ce.fc16.i686 which is already installed

even though

yum list installed emerald

showed nothing to list. What now?

Last edited by Sideburns (2012-01-13 08:18:53)

Nice&Gently · 2012-01-13 12:02:49

Emerald doesn't work with compiz 0.95 which are in the repo's for fc16. That's the reason why yum said emerald is obsoleted by compiz-gtk-0.9.5.92.1.
If you want to use it you need the 0.94 versions of compiz which are not any more in the repo for fc16.
You can download them at koji.
compiz
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buil … dID=238025
ccsm
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buil … dID=234461
libcompizconfig
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buil … dID=247197
compizconfig-python
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buil … dID=234038
compiz-fusion-extras (use the fc15 package or make a rebuild from the src.rpm)
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buil … dID=235545
compiz-fusion-unsupported
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buil … dID=269257
emerald
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buil … dID=235827
emerald-themes
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buil … dID=221159

I don't know if the 0.95 version of compiz are working in fc16 because i prefered to use emerald, so i haven't test them.
But compiz 0.94 is working stable on my system.

Sideburns · 2012-01-13 18:39:06

It's not that I want to use emerald and compiz together, because IIRC, I didn't use emerald before. I just want compiz to work again.

Sideburns · 2012-01-14 22:32:48

For further details, see my BZ report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=756209 and note that the last activity on it was 12/13/11, just over a month ago.

Sideburns · 2012-01-15 22:17:32

Somebody on the Fedora forum suggested trying this from a terminal:

/usr/bin/compiz-manager --replace

I tried it and it kind of worked, but when I logged out and back in, it b0rk everything until I went back to xfwm4.

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