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CatDude · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1355 Location: UK

Hi

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Here you go guys Smile

Compiz!!!

UPDATE to the compiz-helper pet HERE! 111227

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/slacko/compiz-slacko-0.8.8.sfs 30M

md5sum compiz-slacko-0.8.8.sfs
18207ca5e34802fd0578b846682cfcee compiz-slacko-0.8.8.sfs

It includes everything you need, python, plugins, emerald, ccsm and lxpanel.

You need to get the attached "compiz-helper" pet to

1) test your system is capable

2) setup ~/.xinitrc with some vars and calls to compiz/emerald/lxpanel

3) adjust /etc/profile

Your xorg.conf *should* be just fine.. don't touch it

NOTES:
Please run the attachment! It probes your system for vital tid bits. Needless to say you need your accelerated video driver, works with Mesa on Intel and old Radeon, with nvidia driver on Nvidias and fglrx on new Radeons, i don't have a clue about obscure cards, but if you get a decent glxgears number and the test is passed then you are good.
In the xinitrc an attempt is made to see if you use Hardware or Software acceleration and appropriate variables set.

There is no extra wm included (emerald takes care of it) and there is a panel in the shape of lxpanel, bare bones. You can use xfce4 or trinity-KDE and if you're game KDE4. (More on these options later).

You invoke it from console (outside of X) with xwin dummy

I made it an sfs coz it's big! And it wont make a mess if you decide to toss it out.

It is tested working on my main fast system with nvidia and fglrx, my crappy eee-701-SD (NO bull!) and my r51 thinkpad with old radeon-mobility 32M graphics. that's 4! Hmm.. I wonder how the olpc-XO-1.5 will go? Laughing

Known issues:
-there is a little square in the top left corner, it's a window of rxvt, it's the "dummy" wm
-X doesn't close cleanly on some systems, you may need to hard poweroff, but I haven't had to yet, acpid usually cuts in.
-DO NOT use this on servers or where uptime is critical, says that too on the compiz site

Many thanks to dinky (creator of Ripple) for the rxvt idea, the crunch bang guys for ideas to run W/O a wm, the compiz guys, Forlong, for the compiz-check script (hacked for root access).

Have fun! Razz

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2422

Thanks for including the helper. Its showed me that NixiPixil will just have to wait!

Lobster · Posted: Fri 23 Dec 2011, 02:58 Post subject:

ran the fixer
(nice banana . . .)

OK I got three out of four errors
. . . so I added the Mesa GLX from Slickpet (under drivers)
OK now only have one error out of four

Next ran 'xwin startxfce4' from the prompt after adding xfce
and still looking for some wobble or evidence that Compiz is on the system . . .

. . . am I nearly there? Anyone else get those Compiz effects?
Thanks Mick. Thanks guys. Smile

CatDude · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1355 Location: UK

Hi

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 23 Dec 2011, 07:38 Post subject:

Good news, my minimalistic packages repository becomes bigger and bigger as you can see here Smile

My plan is to upload all the new packages today and tomorrow. These include Conky, Angband, bs (a Battleships clone), a wallpapers pack, stalonetray (a standalone system tray), man-pages (man pages for the Linux and glibc API, a must-have for C development), fbshot (a framebuffer screenshot capture tool), imlib2_grab (a screenshot capturing tool included in imlib2), hsetroot (a powerful wallpaper setting tool) and Aspell. And of course, all the snapshot packages (libav, mplayer and cwm) are automatically updated, too.

I hope I'll be able to produce an automatically-built and self-contained Slacko puplet with all these goodies soon Smile

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Lobster · Posted: Fri 23 Dec 2011, 08:38 Post subject:

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 23 Dec 2011, 15:11 Post subject:

Uploading the rebuilt repository, it's here. The packages are installed in /opt, with the menu entries and icons in the regular locations under /usr, so they appear in the menu.

There are many new applications, they include some nice games, improvements for existing packages, some updates (libav, mplayer2 and rxvt-unicode), xcowsay and a nice tile wallpapers pack.

Have fun! Very Happy

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 23 Dec 2011, 18:48 Post subject:

Umm ... sad news. The packages are horrible.

For some reason the new rxvt-unicode refuses to run applications through "-e". I have no idea why. Also, it seems the Terminus font is not recognized for some reason ... and Conky behaves differently for some unknown reason. I did a first build of my puplet and it's totally messed up.

I'll investigate this chaos tomorrow.

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2422

Lobster · Posted: Fri 23 Dec 2011, 21:21 Post subject:

Stripe · Posted: Fri 23 Dec 2011, 21:44 Post subject:

Hi all

thanks mick for a great job with the compiz

wobbling and spinning Very Happy

Don