Compiz newbie having trouble

[tornadof3]

Hello all

I just installed F7 x86_64 on my new machine. Thought I'd try this 'compiz' thingie - not really sure what it is other than being cool desktop effects. Anyhows, I installed compiz from the "kagesenshi" repo. It has created a "CompizConfig Settings Manager" icon in the "System" menu, which if I click this the first time it seems to start compiz as I see some cool effects happening, and clicking it again runs a big config program where I can change lots of settings etc.

The problem is I loose the window border (I'm in KDE) for all windows once compiz starts - so there are no minimize/max./close buttons etc! this is very annoying - how do I stop this? Also, I've looked at some compiz howtos etc and they don't really seem to tell a complete compiz newb how to get some of the effects working - eg when you make your desktop look like the faces of a cube?

I've got an nvidia card with the kmod-nvidia module installed.

[Dangermouse]

Hello Try below

su -
gconftool-2 -s '/apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins' --type list --list-type string '[gconf,png,svg,decoration,\
wobbly,fade,minimize,cube,rotate,\
zoom,place,move,resize,switcher,scale,\
water,annotate,screenshot]'

[tornadof3]

I issued that command and it ran with no errors, but equally it gave no output. I than ran

compiz --replace

and again there was no window border. Is there any command I can issue to output some config info that might be useful to someone? I'm very confused.

[leigh123linux]

try this for the window border problem

emerald --replace

Normally you would use fusion-icon to start

fusion-icon

[tornadof3]

Well I used yum to install emerald and also something to do with Beryl-manager. The first couple of times I ran

emerald--replace from an open terminal window and it worked fantastic. I could then go into the beryl manager tool and change settings/theme etc. Now, however, it just crashes and causes an instant reboot whenever I run emerald --replace or fusion-icon or the beryl manager. What on earth is going on?

In the few minutes I had to play when it was working it looked absolutely *amazing* and so smooth, almost like it was no effort at all!!

[aniketv]

I also have issues with compiz. Beryl works fine . When I select compiz-fusion , the window decoratiosn dissappear. I have Nvidia 8400 card running latest kernel and livna nvidia drivers. I have tried the solutions mentioned above, nothing works

[leigh123linux]

Well you can have either beryl on its own or compiz-fusion on its own but you cant have both installed at the same time as beryl is obsolete and uses a old version beryl which wont work with compiz-fusion and visa-versa .
If you checkout the compiz-fusion thread you will see post's from me on this including a fix which will ban the fedora versions of compiz , beryl & emerald ( use the forum search feature to find it as I can't be bothered to look for it )

[tornadof3]

OK, I think I have emerald, compiz-fusion (plus lots of extra packages) and beryl-manager all installed. I have created a script which I have an icon for on my desktop that just runs:

#!/bin/sh

emerald --replace &
fusion-icon &

I have made an icon to this script and I have *not* set it to 'run in terminal' - should I? Because when I run this at present it works straight away, but there is a taskbar icon of the running script for about 1 minute afterwards, as if it was busy?

I found that the system crashed before as I had opened a terminal window to type the emerald --replace & and the fusion-icon & and even though I'd added the "&" for background running, when I closed the terminal window, that caused the crash. Is there a better way than having an icon link to script on my desktop to start the compiz when I login to KDE?

Lastly, should I remove the "beryl-manager" package?

Many thanks for your help so far.

[aniketv]

ok , All is great now, I removed Beryl completely and installed latest compiz fusion from kagenshi repos. It works perfect!!