Has anyone here tried the Compiz window manager under CentOS 5? I just thought I might give it a go, but when I executed "compiz --replace", I got a segfault. This was using the version from the CentOS yum repositories, and logged in to the GNOME desktop. My graphics driver is the proprietary one from NVIDIA. I tried adding
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
to xorg.conf as this was suggested somewhere on the net, but it didn't make any difference.
Any ideas what's wrong?
- Toralf
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Toralf Lund a écrit :
Has anyone here tried the Compiz window manager under CentOS 5? I just thought I might give it a go, but when I executed "compiz --replace", I got a segfault. This was using the version from the CentOS yum repositories, and logged in to the GNOME desktop. My graphics driver is the proprietary one from NVIDIA. I tried adding
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"to xorg.conf as this was suggested somewhere on the net, but it didn't make any difference.
I'm using it, on all my desktop PCs, and two of these have different NVidia cards. The lines you describe must indeed be in xorg.conf, otherwise you'll have no window decorations.
But to activate Compiz, you just have to go to Preferences>Desktop effects in GNOME, and click on "Activate". That's all there is to do.
Cheers,
Niki
Niki Kovacs wrote:
Toralf Lund a écrit :
Has anyone here tried the Compiz window manager under CentOS 5? I just thought I might give it a go, but when I executed "compiz --replace", I
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I'm using it, on all my desktop PCs, and two of these have different NVidia cards.
OK. So it ought to work, then.
The lines you describe must indeed be in xorg.conf, otherwise you'll have no window decorations.
Fair enough...
But to activate Compiz, you just have to go to Preferences>Desktop effects in GNOME, and click on "Activate". That's all there is to do.
What this actually does is just to start the window manager with the --replace option the way I indicated earlier, I would assume. It also fails, in this case with a very general error message in a popup. In other words, this setup simply doesn't work on my machine. I forgot to mention that I have two monitors and use TwinView, though - perhaps the problem is related to that. Maybe I'll try with a single-screen setup later...
- Toralf
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Toralf Lundtoralf.lund@pgs.com wrote:
I forgot to mention that I have two monitors and use TwinView, though - perhaps the problem is related to that. Maybe I'll try with a single-screen setup later...
There is a maximum framebuffer size with which compiz will work. Most two-screen setups exceed that.
Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Toralf Lundtoralf.lund@pgs.com wrote:
I forgot to mention that I have two monitors and use TwinView, though - perhaps the problem is related to that. Maybe I'll try with a single-screen setup later...
There is a maximum framebuffer size with which compiz will work. Most two-screen setups exceed that.
Right... Yeah, the total width of the screens is definitely more than 2048, if that's the maximum. However, I wasn't quite right about using TwinView, either (must be something wrong with my brain these days). Actually, I disabled this a while back, and the monitors are configured as separate X screens. Also, I don't get the messages about maximum texture sizes that are mentioned on the net, just plain
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
- Toralf
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