Linux Compiz Fusion:An Unparalleled 3D Environment

[bingoUV]

Is there any guy?? whose Linux did not crashed with compiz and 3d effects enabled since 7 days of continues use.

I know what you mean. Sometimes it crashes in the beginning. But then you search the internet for solutions, or try to fix it yourself. Sometimes you have to sacrifice some features, sometimes sacrifice performance, sometimes everything works perfectly with slight effort. Then it works for years without crashing. My experience.

 

[The Sauron]

I know what you mean. Sometimes it crashes in the beginning. But then you search the internet for solutions, or try to fix it yourself. Sometimes you have to sacrifice some features, sometimes sacrifice performance, sometimes everything works perfectly with slight effort. Then it works for years without crashing. My experience.

My past experience is not good in Linux. Tried many distributions well will try to get it stable, by getting help from here and there:hap5:

 

[4m!7]

WOW! My linux view has changed after seeing this!

 

[Blugene]

cant wait to go back to linux after seeing the eye candy here. I only need to make some space in my hdd to install one of distros. btw, just wanted to know if ubuntu 8.10 has compiz built-in? or any new distro containing this shipped with some tech mag? else hv to dnld thru trnts.

 

[Dark Star]

Post a new thread regarding suggestion Get Mandriva Spring btw Ubuntu 8.10 will be released in October.. Ubuntu 8.04.1 has Compiz..

 

[Nigga]

Used these myself in ubuntu , they are pretty cool, but hey nothing beats the functionality of good ol windows or foxy & sexy MAC

 

[samlockart]

great! you spent some time on this!

 

[nanomillenium]

i believe SUSE offers the best features of this...nice work darky

 

[ranger_cole]

What key is mouse1? used for 3d deskyop.

 

[Dark Star]

^^Left Mouse Button ! :|

 

[ranger_cole]

Thank you.

 

[DanDroiD]

i believe SUSE offers the best features of this...nice work darky

Go to compiz-fusion.org and there are instructions there on how to add the compiz server to the package manager and add all the plugs you want. I use DreamLinux and I have all the plugins installed as well as some of the experimental ones... awesome Desktop (or if you are more daring, you can use git)

 

[Dark Star]

^^What screen resolution are you having ! My DL box didn't go above 1024 X 768 even after editing Xorg.conf file

 

[DanDroiD]

Dual monitors -
1st @ 1680x1050
2nd@ 1280x1024
Am using Nvdia driver I downloaded from Nvidia, I like compiling my own from newest available. If you are using Nvidia, go to Terminal and type

sudo nvidia-settings

This will give you an admin nvidia settings panel where you can save the settings and overwrite the current xorg.conf

 

[DanDroiD]

Did you upgrade your DL ? Go to the forums, there is some good info on making sure you are all up to date

 

[sachin1]

nice job dark star!

 

[cool_cat]

Dual monitors -

1st @ 1680x1050

2nd@ 1280x1024

Am using Nvdia driver I downloaded from Nvidia, I like compiling my own from newest available. If you are using Nvidia, go to Terminal and type

sudo nvidia-settings

This will give you an admin nvidia settings panel where you can save the settings and overwrite the current xorg.conf

For the Digital-Vibrance,brightness,contrast etc custom levels using nvidia-settings to be sustained on every boot ,you need to add below lines to Gnome startup(in menu: System>preferences>startup tasks).

nvidia-settings -l

^Where "l" is small letter "L".

Currently I am using pre-release 185.18.04 Nvidia driver on 2.6.29 kernel for Ubuntu.

 

[BaaliSoda]

Is there any way that i can get my title(window border)bar back while using compiz fusion with kwin?

'cos everytime i enable compiz fusion (in particular window decorator), i lose the title bar

(i am using Mandriva 2009 spring edition with KDE 4.2.4)

 

[Dark Star]

^^Compiz | Kwin effects working ? You must install graphics driver before using effects.. Which graphics card you have ?

Till then disable effects //

Edit: If you have installed drivers installing emerald might do the trick.

(i am using Mandriva 2009 spring edition with KDE 4.2.4)

KDE 4.2.4 hasn't been pushed yet :| How you are using 4.2.4

 

[qneb]

When on KDE, it is always better to you KDE's window effects as they are tightly integrated into the DE and also better than Compiz.

For eg., Try and notice the difference in the Window Preview Plugin in both of them. KDE does it perfect while Compiz borks it and the devs refusing to implement it adjudging it as a hack and expecting the changes in the X server itself.