Here you go guys
Compiz!!!
UPDATE to the compiz-helper pet HERE! 111227
http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/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?
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!