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Lousy Compiz: Or no more Beryl after upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 from 7.04

Asked by george_rutkay

After having 7.04 working VERY VERY well on my computer for months, including being VERY happy with how I had Beryl set up to do the Burn and the cube rotation thing (my wife LOVES that!), now I have 7.10 version of Ubuntu downloaded and installed on my computer.

It IS running ok as a system and the upgrade process did preserve my network, e-mail and browser settings.....but to my great dismay I now find I am forced to use Compiz (Beryl no longer functions on this system).

I did not expect that to happen and I am disappointed that this occurred. I'm not thrilled about it because I never did have luck in getting Compiz to run as I liked (I tried before and it was atrocious), whereas Beryl configured and ran well, once I figured out a few things.

My wife and kids wants the Burn and the Cube rotation thing to happen just like it did in Beryl.

I went to the Compiz plug-ins website:

http://compiz.org/Plugins

...and I downloaded 3D plugin and Animation plugin but I don't know what to do with them.

The 3d folder contains 3 files:
3d.c
3d.schema
Makefile

The animation folder contains 4 files:
animation.c
animation.schema
animation_tex.h
Makefile

I'm an intelligent person who is university educated, who works as a profession and whose never been arrested for anything - but I hate how this stuff makes me feel like an idiot and a dolt.

Is there no sensible way to allow users to migrate settings without making them feel like they can't even dress themselves?

Thanks

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Qwerty Maniac (qwertymaniac) said : 		#1

Compiz-Fusion is installed on Gutsy Gibbon and its a merger of Compiz and Beryl which only occurred recently.

To configure its properties more intricately, you have to install 'compizconfig-settings-manager' :

Run the following in the Terminal:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra

[The latter package adds a whole lot of extra features on Gutsy]

Now you can find a CompizConfig Settings Manager under your System > Preferences and you must be able to enable the >>Cube Rotation<< and >>Animations<< just as easily as a tick over the plugin.

Am sorry about the 3D Windows plugin, it seems to have disappeared from Gutsy but does exist in Feisty Compiz-Fusion packages. But doing the above will definitely give you Cube Rotation and Window Burn (Maximize and Minimize burn) features.

Hope this works out for you till someone else answers on how to build the 3D Window plugin. :)

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Sergei Plaxienko (sergei-plaxienko) said : 		#2

$ sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
It does work just fine! Now I have nice and cool desktop :-)

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#3

Sorry, still doesn't work.

I followed these instructions. I installed compizconfig settings manager and it is totally unresponsive when I try to use it from the System/Preferences menu, it does not respond at all.

My desktop patterns act strangely now too, before I had Wallpaper Tray to show pictures of the family and it always displayed just one icon in the top right corner.

Now there are 6 icons of Wallpaper Tray displaying at the same time in the top right corner and I still only have 2 desktops, I cannot rotate the cube - there appears to be no cube at all even though I selected it in Compiz Settings manager.

This is very frustrating and only causes me to remember why I disliked Compiz in the first place (When I first tried it I encountered just such misbehaviour and I see I still encounter it).

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#4

I resolved the desktop wallpaper problem.

At first I couldn't un-install the wallpaper-tray program because for some strange reason it was not in the add/remove list nor the Synaptic manager for me to remove. Another user helped me manually remove it through the command line.

EEK!!!! What a nightmare that was!

I replaced wallpaper-tray with a new program in the Synaptic manager called Drapes.

Compiz just refuses to behave, it refuses to load.

I have posted another question about this and a couple of other issues connected with this 7.10 update, the link is:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/15642

You can read some of my results and errors I received there.

This is a very struggling upgrade! I hope users new to Linux aren't going to be turned-off by this!

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#5

Your problems are probably related to trying to upgrade a somewhat customized system and conflicts between compiz and beryl. Upgrading an OS is always tricky. I've never used OSX so I can't comment but in windows it's a mess. Windows is good about hiding its mess so the average user doesn't usually notice it (except for slow downs). I always do a fresh install of my OS instead of upgrading. The more you customize the more you will have problems when you upgrade. It's funny, but reinstalling is also a lot faster than upgrading.

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kizman (kronik-rom) said : 		#6

umm i still dont get it please im new and i really want that cool cube...
I dont anything about ubuntu. So please someone help

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