Re: How do I activate compiz on kde with F10? (fwd)

[Steven W. Orr]

Passed on as requested.

Thanks Marko.

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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:24:04
From: Marko Vojinovic 
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Cc: Steven W. Orr 
Subject: Re: How do I activate compiz on kde with F10?

On Saturday 20 December 2008 05:32, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I'm interested in trying it but I have no idea how to activate it. It
> looks cool. Where do I start?

Well, you can start by describing your video hardware to us. For compiz to
work, you first need to enable 3D acceleration, which typically means
installing closed-source drivers (for nVidia and ATI case). You have a
working 3D acceleration once the command "glxinfo | grep direct"
returns "yes".

Then you should install all of the compiz-related packages. I have the
following installed on my laptop (use yum to install them all):

compiz
compiz-fusion
compiz-fusion-extras
compiz-fusion-gnome
compiz-gnome
compiz-kde
compiz-manager
compizconfig-python
ccsm
fusion-icon
fusion-icon-qt
emerald
emerald-themes

The final step is to tweak your xorg.conf file in order to configure X for
AIGLX and other stuff needed for compiz. The clear instructions can be found
on compiz-fusion website (sorry, don't remember the link, use google), do
what they say for your type of hardware. If you don't have an xorg.conf file,
create one in /etc/X11/ directory.

After you have checked that you have a working compiz by running it via
command-line as detailed on the website (it goes something
like "compiz --replace blah blah..."), you typically start it not from the
command line but by starting the fusion-icon which takes care of the details.
I have a shortcut for it in ~/.kde/Autostart/, which starts compiz as soon as
I log in.

Depending on your hardware, you might run into all sorts of no-go trouble, so
be prepared to ask about specifics as you go through this. :-)

HTH, :-)
Marko

P.S. Several of my last posts to the fedora-list didn't actually make it
there. If this one also doesn't, could you please forward this to others and
ask someone to help me out? It seems that posts from  [e-mail]
don't reach the list, and I have no idea why... :-(