Hi-
I am working on setting up a new install of openSUSE 11.1 on a Lenovo
s10e with Intel GMA950 graphics. I have installed compiz and emerald,
and rolled them back to the versions without the NOMAD patch, from the
alternate repo.
TI have not installed any ATI, Nvidia, or XGL packages, but the
compositing seems to be working fine.
It has been a bit of trouble getting compiz to work properly.
For some reason Compiz and emerald seem to work fine in KDE 4, but in
GNOME (which I intend to use as my default desktop environment), I can
launch compiz only from a terminal with superuser privilieges, but not
in the ordinary way.
If, after booting into GNOME, I issue
compiz-manager --replace
from a terminal with super-user privileges, it runs fine. It also works
fine if I launch simple-ccsm from a super-user terminal and activate
Compiz that way. But if I run simple-ccsm from the applications menu and
activate compiz, emerald does not load, windows have no decorations, and
the screen completely refireshes every couple of seconds. The terminal
and all the windows disappear and flicker on and off, then the screen
goes black, and the X session crashes after about 30 seconds. Booting
back into GNOME, I find the same problem, the screen and the panel keep
flashing, and the session crashes again.
Is there some way that I can configure gnome from an xsessions .desktop
file to load compiz instead of metacity at startup? This is the method i
have used with other distros in the past, but it seems not to work here.
No takers? I am surprised that as a new openSuSE user I have had to face
this with no help. Seems like a common enough thing I’m trying to
achieve.
An update on the above: I figured out that if the compiz settings were
ok when I ran compiz-manager as root, then all I had to do was copy the
compiz and emerald settings files from root’s home directory to my home
directory. I also figured out that I didn’t have fusion-icon installed.
Those two things made it work.
However, I am now booting into compiz with the fusion-icon method, This
is quiet ugly and slow: after my gnome desktop appears, a few screenlets
appear, blink on and off, and are eventually relegated to the compiz
widgets layer when that loads. I have a strong impulse that says this is
not the best way of going about this, because it takes an extra 20-30
seconds and looks terrible.
What’s equally bad, in KDE (both 3 and 4) I believe compiz is loading
as the default manager, and is then loading again with fusion-icon,
which is set to boot in the sessions.
I have tried editing an xsessions file to start up compiz that way; I
can get compiz to load, but then I find that in gnome, my keyboard
shortcuts don’t work. I have configured these in the metacity section of
gconf-editor and also in the compiz ccsm general settings, and I find
that they appear just fine in both places but do not function.
I am so close I can taste it. Help me out, please, someone!
Perhaps there is a way in the “sessions” settings to set fusion-icon
to load only under gnome?
What is the magic command I need to put in an xsessions script to
load the compiz-manager correctly?