FC6 aiglx/compiz

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Wed Oct 25 19:45:10 UTC 2006


Today Brian Gaynor did spake thusly:

> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:35 +0200, Eric Donkersloot wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I'm trying to get aiglx/compiz to work on my FC6 box, I installed the 9626
>> beta driver from livna, which is working fine. However, every time I try to
>> use the 'Desktop Effects' application in Gnome to enable the 3d effects I
>> get the following error message:
>>
>> 'Desktop effects could no be enabled'
>>
>> I've searched the logs for a more detailed error message, unfortunately I
>> didn't find any. My card is a Geforce FX 5200, my xorg.conf is listed below:
>
> As Alexandru Ciobanu mentioned
>
> Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
> Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
>
> seemed to do the trick for me. You can launch desktop-effects from a
> terminal instead of from the preferences menu to see more detailed error
> messages (they don't seem to make it into a log file).

Is compiz the only wm enabled for this? Is there a way to change the 
window decorations? Or a gui tool to change the configuration? (I 
remember using one from the unofficial xgl repo in FC5) Or am I asking too 
much?

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