Mehul Ved wrote:
On Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 01:24:15PM +0530, Rony wrote:
Checking for Composite extension: not present. aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
Do you have something like the below in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf ---------------xxx--------------- Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection ---------------xxx---------------
I did not have the lines so I copy pasted them and rebooted the machine. Now after doing 'sudo compiz-manager' I am able to move the cubes. Thanks for the tip. There is one little issue of title bars getting knocked off and even after closing compiz, I have to use the File -> Exit route instead of the close button on the title bar. Even after all this, there is resiidue in the task bar. It goes away only after logging out and relogging in.
Further update. I ran sudo compiz-manager from the run dialog and as long as I am in compiz, everything is fine. I noticed that though each of my 4 desktops has different wallpapers, the cube shows 4 faces of the same desktop. I like the way windows can be dragged from one face to another.
Video player had a problem that it showed the desktop with icons instead of the movie. For that the libxine1 package was updated with a new version in apt. Now video plays properly in compiz.