Having Some Problem with Compiz Fusion-Please Help!

[Espreon]

OK, I finally got CF working but have a few probs.
1st Whenever I do effects like Fire Painting and Group Tabbing I can't activate them because whenever I press the Super (Windows) key the SUSE-styled KDE menu comes up. (Same thing with the original KDE Menu).
Some times windows becomes transparent (I don't like this)
Also the only window decorator that works is the GTK window decorator (I wanna use Emerald) Emerald works fine with Beryl, the KDE window decorator also does not work.

Also I want to use the latest features (like the Shift switcher,Cube Atlantis (fish swimming in the cube) and more). So how do I obtain those? If some of your answers involve portage then please make it so a newbie (at portage) can understand.

[Bam]

OK, I finally got CF working but have a few probs.
1st Whenever I do effects like Fire Painting and Group Tabbing I can't activate them because whenever I press the Super (Windows) key the SUSE-styled KDE menu comes up. (Same thing with the original KDE Menu).

remove the file "winkey.desktop" from your "/home/.kde3.5/Autostart". Then restart KDE. This will stop the super key from pulling up the KDE menu.

Also I want to use the latest features (like the Shift switcher,Cube Atlantis (fish swimming in the cube) and more). So how do I obtain those? If some of your answers involve portage then please make it so a newbie (at portage) can understand.

Add the xeffects overlay to layman (don't type the quotes I use in this post) "layman -a xeffects". Then "emerge --sync && layman -S".

As root edit "/etc/portage/package.keywords" and add:
" x11-plugins/compiz-fusion-plugins-shift **"
"x11-plugins/compiz-fusion-plugins-atlantis **"

and any other package you want to emerge...this will unmask them.

finally emerge the plugins you want...This is pretty much how I added the shift plugin, but I use eix to search for ebuilds, so if I left something out, I apologize.....hope this helps.

The wiki post here might help you apply what I posted: http://www.sabayonlinux.org/wiki/index. ... piz-Fusion

This may help also: http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9150 read what CCR said on 3 Aug (1st reply)..this is how I figured it out.

[Espreon]

Thanx for the solution to the Winkey problem but now CF won't work (Stopped working after rebooting after getting it to work):

Outputs in the Terminal:

Command:compiz

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compiz (core) - Error: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager.
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0


With the :LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib compiz --sm-disable --replace ccp command:

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spanek@localhost ~ $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib compiz --sm-disable --replace ccp
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).


I am using an ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 with the fglrx driver (it does not support compositing and the card does not work with the opensource ati/radeon driver also Beryl works and CF worked fine on Ubuntu) with XGL also Loose Binding is enabled (That is how I got it to work on Sabayon)

My xorg.conf file:

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Section "Files"


    #FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this is an optional section which is used to specify
# which run-time loadable modules to load when the X server starts up.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Module"

    Load   "dbe"
    Load   "i2c"
    Load   "glx"
    Load   "ddc"
    Load   "type1"
    Load   "freetype"
    Load   "extmod"
    Load   "synaptics"
    Load   "vbe"
   Load        "dri"

EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section.  This contains various server-wide Options.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerFlags"

     Option    "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Input devices
# **********************************************************************

# **********************************************************************
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier      "Synaptics1"
    Driver      "synaptics"
    Option      "SendCoreEvents"   "true"
    Option      "Device"      "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
    Option      "HorizScrollDelta"   "0"
    Option      "SHMConfig"      "on"
    # For ALPS/MacBook TouchPads
    #Option      "MaxSpeed"      "0.7"
    #Option      "MinSpeed"      "0.18"
    #Option      "AccelFactor"      "0.08"
    #Option      "TopEdge"      "120"
    #Option      "LeftEdge"      "120"
    #Option      "BottomEdge"      "830"
    #Option      "RightEdge"      "650"
    #Option      "FingerLow"      "25"
    #Option      "FingerHigh"      "30"
    # MacBook touchpad
    #Option      "MaxTapTime"      "180"
    #Option      "MaxTapMove"      "220"
    #Option      "MaxDoubleTapTime"   "180"
    #Option      "VertScrollDelta"   "20"
    #Option      "HorizScrollDelta"   "50"
    #Option      "TapButton2"      "3"
    #Option      "TapButton3"      "2"
    #Option      "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "1"

    # Do you keep moving the mouse while typing? Try this trick.
    #synclient TouchpadOff=1 disable your synaptics touchpad
    #synclient TouchpadOff=0 enable your synaptics touchpad
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier   "Keyboard1"
    Driver   "kbd"
   
    Option   "AutoRepeat"   "500 5"
    Option      "XkbModel"   "pc105"
    Option   "XkbLayout"   "us"
    Option      "XkbRules"      "xorg"
    # Macintosh keyboard
    #Option   "XkbOptions"   "lv3:rwin_switch"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "wacom1"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "stylus"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "wacom2"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "eraser"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "wacom3"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "cursor"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

    Identifier   "Mouse1"
    Driver   "mouse"

    Option   "Device"   "/dev/psaux"
    Option   "Protocol"   "ImPS/2"
    Option   "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5"
     
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier   "Mouse2"
    Driver   "mouse"
    Option   "Protocol"   "ImPS/2"
    Option   "Device"   "/dev/input/mice"
    Option    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of monitor sections may be present

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier   "Generic Monitor"
    #Option      "DPMS"

    VertRefresh 43 - 60
    HorizSync   28 - 80
   
EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "VESA"
    Driver      "fglrx" # do not remove vesa
    #Option "RenderAccel" "on"
    #Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
    #Option "BusType" "PCI"
    #Option "ColorTiling" "on"
    #Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Screen"

# The Identifier, Device and Monitor lines must be present

    Identifier   "Screen 1"
    Device   "VESA"
    Monitor   "Generic Monitor"
    #Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

# The favoured Depth and/or Bpp may be specified here

    DefaultDepth 24

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth      8
        ViewPort   0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           16
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           24
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection


EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
# The Identifier line must be present

    Identifier   "Main Layout"
    Screen 0    "Screen 1"
    InputDevice   "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice   "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "Synaptics1" "SendCoreEvents"
    #InputDevice "wacom1" "SendCoreEvents"
    #InputDevice "wacom2" "SendCoreEvents"
    #InputDevice "wacom3" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
   #Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection


[Psychosis]

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 #Option "Composite" "Enable"

if you're using AiGLX

[Espreon]

OK, I finally got CF working but have a few probs.
1st Whenever I do effects like Fire Painting and Group Tabbing I can't activate them because whenever I press the Super (Windows) key the SUSE-styled KDE menu comes up. (Same thing with the original KDE Menu).

remove the file "winkey.desktop" from your "/home/.kde3.5/Autostart". Then restart KDE. This will stop the super key from pulling up the KDE menu.

Also I want to use the latest features (like the Shift switcher,Cube Atlantis (fish swimming in the cube) and more). So how do I obtain those? If some of your answers involve portage then please make it so a newbie (at portage) can understand.

Add the xeffects overlay to layman (don't type the quotes I use in this post) "layman -a xeffects". Then "emerge --sync && layman -S".

As root edit "/etc/portage/package.keywords" and add:
" x11-plugins/compiz-fusion-plugins-shift **"
"x11-plugins/compiz-fusion-plugins-atlantis **"

and any other package you want to emerge...this will unmask them.

finally emerge the plugins you want...This is pretty much how I added the shift plugin, but I use eix to search for ebuilds, so if I left something out, I apologize.....hope this helps.

The wiki post here might help you apply what I posted: http://www.sabayonlinux.org/wiki/index. ... piz-Fusion

This may help also: http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9150 read what CCR said on 3 Aug (1st reply)..this is how I figured it out.

When I try to add the xeffects I get this:

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* Running command "/usr/bin/svn co "svn://svn.gentoo-xeffects.org/xeffects/trunk/" "/usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects""...
svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.gentoo-xeffects.org': Connection refused
* Failed to add overlay "xeffects".
* Error was: Adding the overlay failed!


Is that server down or somethin? or does the server hate me?

[kr.pa.us]

When I try to add the xeffects I get this:

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* Running command "/usr/bin/svn co "svn://svn.gentoo-xeffects.org/xeffects/trunk/" "/usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects""...
svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.gentoo-xeffects.org': Connection refused
* Failed to add overlay "xeffects".
* Error was: Adding the overlay failed!


Is that server down or somethin? or does the server hate me?

Not sure about "xeffects", but OpenCompositing is moving (~12:30 AM EST):

http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewf ... c36867c59a