compiz problems

[F.User_4_Life]

when i click on the icon the curser getts the bouncing icon but nothing else happens im not sure what the problem is so i would appreciate the help.


p.s. i was wondering how to change themes.

[glennzo]

Kind of a vague statement / question wouldn't you say? Are you talking about the icon for Compiz-Fusion? If I were you I would figure out what the command is behind that icon, open a terminal and run the command from there, first as regular user and then if it doesn't work, run it as root. You might see some error output that way which would allow you to move forward with diagnosis.

[F.User_4_Life]

this is what i did i draged and droped the icon and this is what happened


[KDE@localhost ~]$ '/home/KDE/.local/share/applications/fedora-fusion-icon-2.desktop'
bash: /home/KDE/.local/share/applications/fedora-fusion-icon-2.desktop: Permission denied
[KDE@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost KDE]# '/home/KDE/.local/share/applications/fedora-fusion-icon-2.desktop'
bash: /home/KDE/.local/share/applications/fedora-fusion-icon-2.desktop: Permission denied
[root@localhost KDE]#

[glennzo]

Open a terminal and type fusion-icon &. If you get a command not found error then type updatedb. When that finishes type locate fusion-icon.

[glenn@toshiba ~]$ locate fusion-icon
/home/glenn/.config/autostart/fusion-icon.desktop
/home/glenn/.config/compiz/fusion-icon
/usr/bin/fusion-icon
/usr/share/applications/fedora-fusion-icon.desktop
/usr/share/doc/fusion-icon-0.5
/usr/share/doc/fusion-icon-0.5/COPYING
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/fusion-icon.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/fusion-icon.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/fusion-icon.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/fusion-icon.svg

In the above sample from my computer the path is /usr/bin. I would then try /usr/bin/fusion-icon.

[F.User_4_Life]

KDE@localhost ~]$ /usr/bin/fusion-icon
* Detected Session: kde
* Searching for installed applications...
* No GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap with direct rendering context
... present with indirect rendering, exporting: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
* Using the GTK Interface
* Interface not installed
... Trying another interface
* Using the Qt4 Interface
Segmentation fault
[KDE@localhost ~]$

[glennzo]

Have you actually installed Compiz-Fusion and the correct video drivers for your card?

[F.User_4_Life]

i do a search for compiz in yumex and all of them are installed and i have the flglrx driver installed. i had to do a fresh install and compiz worked fine hen except i couldnt use the decorations from emerald.

[glennzo]

Check out this thread and this thread also. Post #4 in the second thread is especially enlightening.

[F.User_4_Life]

ok i opened the package manager program and did the search for everything compiz and emerald and installed all things except for the develop files and it works so far the icon is in the system tray how do i set up compiz to work. step by step to make it function normally.

[glennzo]

See post #8.

[F.User_4_Life]

ok im using fglrx and i need to install xgl cause aiglx is incompatable or desnt support hardware acceleration
i looked at some step by step instructions and i get yhis error

[root@localhost KDE]# yum install glitz glitz-glx libsvg libsvg-cairo -y
Loading "security" plugin
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "presto" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "downloadonly" plugin
Loading "upgrade-helper" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
atrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
No Presto metadata available for atrpms
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
No Presto metadata available for livna
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
No Presto metadata available for fedora
http://www.illawarra.org/linux/fedor...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
No Presto metadata available for illawarra
updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
No Presto metadata available for updates
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* atrpms: dl.atrpms.net
* livna: livna.cat.pdx.edu
* fedora: mirror.usu.edu
* illawarra: www.illawarra.org
* updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
http://www.illawarra.org/linux/fedor...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: illawarra. Please verify its path and try again
[root@localhost KDE]#

and this site is one i looked at

http://nicofo.tuxfamily.org/dotclear...eryl-on-fedora