Re: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Released Today
 

sorting out the compiz settings.etc one of those things that I've put on the old to-do list, Problem is other things keep making their way onto the list above it ;)

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lol...........Now that sounds familiar.
Nothings ever at the top of the "to-do" list for long eh,before getting forgotton about in place of some new enigma;)

Try Enlightenment Window manager btw,you might like that more;)

Re: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Released Today
 

Dunno I find the KDE layout suits me quite well being mainly a windows user in the past.

I quite like 1 task bar With the menu.etc on particularly as my monitor is 1440x900 wide-screen.


Tried enlightenment once before and wasn't that keen probably didn't take the time to configure it. Its one of those "I've got it working in a way that I like it"situations and I loathe to change anything at this particular moment apart from the odd aptitude install command when I find I'm missing something (No gimp on the default kubuntu install for instance :Yikes:)

Edit:
Does anyone know how to bind winkey D to minimise everything?
I used xbindkeys to make winkey + L lock the pc
I could probably do the same for minimise all if there was a command I could execute to do it.

Other thing does anyone know of a way to monitor a logitech wireless keyboard/mouse with linux?
I.e a program that can check the battery charge level.

Re: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Released Today
 

How? as far as im aware emerald doesnt work in gutsy yet?

Least thats what i was made to believe on ubuntuforums lol.

Emerald caused a few slow issues for me in feisty, not that bothered though, quite happy with gtk2/metacity to be honest :)

And cant wait to see where CF Is in 5 years.

M$ might play catch up in oh about 15 years :p:

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You can install emerald itself just fine from synaptic but as you`ll see theres no emerald themes in there but...If you go here though,you can quite easily install a deb,which should work fine.:)

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I got emerald almost working in kbuntu 7.10 now :p:

I say almost becase for some reason The desktop selector thing in the kicker shows twice the number of virtual desktops than I have..

i.e if i have 2 it will show 4, even more oddly 3 is a clone of 1 and 4 is a clone of 2 :confused:


Other thing I couldn't get working is the cube it doesn't seem to want to show it.

P.s if you manually start compiz you have to add a parameter to the command otherwise it won't acknowledge the setting from the settings app (and being on my laptop atm I can't remember what its called)

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Really not too sure about kubuntu....it`s been soo long;)
I know on a default 7.10 gnome install you have to go change to the desktop cube and set the desktop size to the 4.The default in Gnome is the Wall Plugin with only 2 desktops.

EDIT:I can manually start compiz using ALT-f2 with just "compiz --replace" and it`s starting emerald too

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Theres something between teh compiz and the --replace that then tells it to load the config settings from the settings manager thingy (for which I cannot remember the name it shows in the settings menu as "advanced desktop settings" it starts with c i think.

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The only thing i ever have between teh compiz and the --replace is a space;)
I`ve generally just left the default settings in gutsy though which has compiz starting by default,as long as your drivers are installed of course.

"advanced desktop setting" is just the Compizconfig-settings manager(ccsm)

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"compiz ccsm --replace" i think it is either that or compiz --replace ccsm

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Never known that one.
IF you do use ccsm then use it to make changes then close it.
If you have to start/restart compiz any settings made in ccsm will be saved anyway, without having to start ccsm everytime you start compiz.
If i understand you right:erm:

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Tried to get compiz-fusion working on Kubuntu Gutsy, but I gave up. Tried Ubuntu and went pretty smoothly. A bit of a shame as I like KDE.

Now just to spend another 3 weeks configuring and learning the keys/mouse gestures.

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It does work (mostly).

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If you don't put ccsm in the command compiz just loads its deafult settings instead of the ones set by ccsm it doens't actually start ccsm or anything.

Only problem I have now is cube not working but i think i need to change the number of virtual desktops

@gavin you need compiz, compiz-plugins, emerald packages and it *should* work providing you have the appropriate graphics driver.

I may have missed a package but i'm not sure.

I can post the KDE autostart file I use to start compiz if you want... I got it from a forum.

you can use k-window-decorator instead of emerald but i find it to be a tad unstable and tends to crash if you logout/login or sometimes not start...

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i couldn't even get xgl or my card running in accelerated 3d mode (despite enabling the ati drivers) for some reason. There's bugger all support online for it as well. I might persevere with ubuntu, or try again later. I want to try and avoid installing the KDE desktop ontop of gnome as that buggered my last install.

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how did you install it last time.

I installed the kubuntu package on ubutnu before without incident.
Although not tried both gnome and kde on the present version.