[CentOS] centos 7.1 and compiz

Fri Jul 17 18:03:55 UTC 2015
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:39:58PM +0000, Wes James wrote:
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> On Jul 17, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:14:51PM +0000, Wes James wrote:
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> On Jun 27, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Wes James <comptekki at me.com> wrote:
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> I have compiz installed on centos 6.6, and I’ve been testing 7.1, but I can't find any info on installing compiz on 7.1. Is there any info for this or is it not supported yet?
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> I installed the kde option for centos 7.1 and it has desktop effects built in....
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> -wes
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> On my Centos 7.x box:
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> $ yum list available | grep -y compiz
> compiz.x86_64 1:0.8.8-27.el7.nux nux-dextop
> compiz-debuginfo.x86_64 1:0.8.8-27.el7.nux nux-dextop
> compiz-devel.x86_64 1:0.8.8-27.el7.nux nux-dextop
> compiz-lxde.x86_64 1:0.8.8-27.el7.nux nux-dextop
> compiz-mate.x86_64 1:0.8.8-27.el7.nux nux-dextop
> compiz-xfce.x86_64 1:0.8.8-27.el7.nux nux-dextop
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> looks as if it's not available for Gnome.
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> I also vaguely recall recently seeing a posting that the reason for it not being
> available for Gnome is that Gnome already has compositing stuff built in.
> But I could be wrong about thatl.
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> Fred
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> I noticed that too.  When I installed centos 7 the second time, I noticed a kde desktop and a gnome desktop in the offering.  If you don't select either (my first try before selecting kde), what desktop is installed?
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my guess is that it depends on which ISO image you used.

I iinstalled a non-productized version from a DVD that installed Gnome,
then I added the epel repo and installed Mate which then was made the
default desktop.

As an aside, I'm wondering if you removed all the "quote" marks  in my
first reply (the "> " starting each line). Replies without such quote
marks are awfully hard for others to read...

Fred
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