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Old 26-Dec-2008, 09:44
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Default Re: Quitting KDE4 applications on GNOME desktop kills Compiz

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Originally Posted by wondercow View Post
Ok, I have solved this problem now. There is another thread reporting this same problem (here: OpenSUSE 11.1 Compiz and QT4 - openSUSE Forums ) and user olivn posted the solution:

CyberOrg » Compiz on openSUSE 11.1

I had to do some extra steps to get everything working, though.



The step it doesn't cover that I had to do was go into Yast Software Manager and make sure that ALL my compiz-related packages were from the X11GL source. By following those quoted directions alone, I had mixed XGL and OSS packages, and they didn't play nice together (plugins failing, window decoration not loading, etc.).

Then you go back to the CyberOrg solution:



Hope this helps you as much as it did me!
Hi.

I've followed the steps you kindly posted and also made the changes in Yast to use X11 repos instead of OSS but I still have the meralld problem... here is the simple-cssm output:

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cacho@linux-vkrj:~> simple-ccsm
Checking for Xdmx: not present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 02:00.0 0300: 10de:01d3 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Dry run finished: everything should work with regards to Compiz and 3D.
No compiz manager config found!
Checking for Xdmx: not present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 02:00.0 0300: 10de:01d3 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
* Detected Session: kde
* Searching for installed applications...
* NVIDIA on Xorg detected, exporting: __GL_YIELD=NOTHING
* Using the GTK Interface
* Decorator "compiz-decorator --replace" is invalid.
* Setting decorator to Emerald ("emerald --replace")
/usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Plugin 'core' has ABI version '20081121', expected ABI version '20080828'.

/usr/bin/compiz (ccp) - Error: InitObject failed
/usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'ccp'
If I use emerald I get no window borders.
Is there any solution??

Thanks in advance

Luis
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