All,
I installed ubuntu-desktop package (the GNOME env.) on
my Kubuntu so, that I could have GNOME and KDE
together (for any demos).
I installed compiz, that is three packages
compiz
compiz-gnome
compiz-kde
I also installed Xserver-xgl; (since Xgl is a
pre-requisite for Compiz).
According to the documents on Ubuntu's help website
(
http://help.ubuntu.com) I wrote a small script
#!/bin/bash
compiz --replace gconf &
gtk-window-decorator --replace
and put this file in /usr/local/bin/ and assigned it
executable permissions.
For GNOME, I added the necessary lines in
/etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom
That is the following lines
[servers]
0=Xgl
[server-Xgl]
name=Xgl server
command=/usr/bin/Xgl -fullscreen -br -accel xv:pbuffer
-accel glx:pbuffer
flexible=true
Also, added Compiz to start by default using
"Sessions" in GNOME.
However, I'm not able to see any effects (not even the
basic ones) and I *guess* Compiz isn't even starting
up!
Am I missing something here?
Are there any additional steps?
I also tried enabling compiz in KDE, but there's just
one problem.
There's a small line change in
/etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc
ServerCmd=(all that content)
And then at a command line (when I assume Xgl is
enabled after a log-off and log-in) I issue the
following command
kdm --replace=compiz
What happens after this is that each window's title
bar disappears, also disabling any keyboard input :-/
I have tried searching quite a few documents. Most of
them speak only about GNOME, and most are about NVIDIA
and ATI cards.
My video card is a SiS 650 and I have shared 32 MB of
my Physical RAM to it.
Thanks in advance.
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