Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.2 out
by cyberorg,
Friday, March 7th, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
Yet another development milestone is released from both the projects. To keep versions in sync Compiz Fusion has skipped the release of version 0.7.0. Here is Dennis “Onestone” Kasprzyk’s Compiz release announcement and Compiz Fusion release announcement from Guillaume “iXce” Seguin.
Package versions should all read 0.7.2 (rpm -qa | grep compiz) except for compiz-emerald-themes. Give some time for mirrors to sync all packages.
Highlight of the releases:
Compiz:
- Translation support in gtk-window-decorator.
- Updated translations.
- Added wrapable session functions to core. This allows to provide a full
session save/restore in a plugin.
Compiz Fusion:
New Plugins:
compiz-fusion-plugins-main:
- session: Communicates with session manager to save/restore window state
- bs: Change window brightness and saturation with key/button bindings
- mousepoll: Provides a generic system for other plugins to get the current
mouse position
- mag: Provides a magnifying glass under the mouse pointer with 3 different
display modes (simple/image overlay/fisheye)
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra:
- 3d: Adds depth to your desktop by raising windows in layers off the cube
- loginout: Provides a simple system to implement login and logout animations
- maximumize: Resizes a window to fit within the available empty screen space
- notification: Displays error messages on the screen with libnotify
- shelf: Shrinks a window to a preset size for monitoring many windows at once
- showmouse: Paints particle emitters that orbit the mouse pointer to make it
more visible
compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported:
- atlantis: Renders an aquarium inside of the transparent cube
Configuration manager changes:
ccsm:
- Action settings were split into button, key, and edge settings, each using
its own widget.
simple-ccsm:
- New settings manager focused on simplicity and aimed at end users
Handy 1-click links for openSUSE 10.3 (use any one of them):
compiz-fusion-gnome - compiz-fusion-kde - compiz-fusion-emerald - compiz-fusion-devel - compiz-fusion-all
For openSUSE 11:
compiz-fusion-gnome - compiz-fusion-kde - compiz-fusion-emerald - compiz-fusion-devel - compiz-fusion-all
: dsssss, March 7, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280×1024) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting emerald
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/usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: no ‘core’ plugin with ABI version ‘20071103′ loaded
/usr/bin/compiz (ccp) - Error: InitObject failed
/usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Couldn’t activate plugin ‘ccp’
: cyberorg, March 7, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
“Package versions should all read 0.7.2 (rpm -qa | grep compiz) except for compiz-emerald-themes. Give some time for mirrors to sync all packages.”
: ???? Compiz ? Compiz Fusion ???????? 7.2 « Black X, March 7, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
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: ???? ???????? 0.7.2 ?? Compiz ? Compiz Fusion « Black X, March 7, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
[...] ???? ???????? 0.7.2 ?? Compiz ? Compiz Fusion ???? 7, 2008 — Black X ??? ????? ???????? 0.7.2 ?? Compiz ? Compiz Fusion, ? ????? ?? ????????? ? ???????? ???? ???????? ?????? ??? ??????. [...]
: Bill, March 7, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
no Atlantis in compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported (at least 10.3 x64)
rpm -q compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported
compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported-0.7.2-1.1
rpm -ql compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported
/etc/gconf/schemas/compiz-fakeargb.schemas
/etc/gconf/schemas/compiz-mswitch.schemas
/etc/gconf/schemas/compiz-snow.schemas
/etc/gconf/schemas/compiz-tile.schemas
/usr/lib64/compiz/libfakeargb.so
/usr/lib64/compiz/libmswitch.so
/usr/lib64/compiz/libsnow.so
/usr/lib64/compiz/libtile.so
/usr/share/compiz/fakeargb.xml
/usr/share/compiz/mswitch.xml
/usr/share/compiz/snow.xml
/usr/share/compiz/snowflake.png
/usr/share/compiz/tile.xml
as always, thanks
: Jan, March 7, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Does compiz now support thumbnails of minimized windows?
: cyberorg, March 7, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
@jan - no
@Bill - Fixed, check out the latest package
: Clark, March 7, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
compiz-kde4 is not usable as it wants kde4-kwin greater than 4.0.60 which does not exist.
: cyberorg, March 7, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Check under http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/UNSTABLE:/Desktop/
: unix-pete, March 7, 2008 @ 8:27 pm
Following items fail to run (I am using NVIDIA proprierary drivers)
… executing: compiz –no-libgl-fallback –replace –sm-disable –ignore-desktop-hints ccp
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn’t registered
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn’t registered
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn’t registered
compiz (core) - Error: no ‘cube’ plugin with ABI version ‘20071024′ loaded
compiz (3d) - Error: InitObject failed
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn’t activate plugin ‘3d’
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn’t load plugin ‘notification’
: clark, March 7, 2008 @ 11:29 pm
If compiz-kde4 requires packages from UNSTABLE, then why is it in STABLE?
On Compiz, if your using the 169 series Nvidia drivers, try removing the simlink for libIndirectGL.so.1
rm /usr/lib64/libIndirectGL.so.1
: cyberorg, March 8, 2008 @ 7:29 am
@clark that does look like a version mistake, will fix that.
@unix-pete rpm -qa | grep compiz should give you all packages versioned 0.7.2. and make sure you do not have self compiled plugins in ~/.compiz
: Philluminati, March 28, 2008 @ 11:17 pm
I had the same problem that unix-pete had but removing the screensaver plugin I had compiled myself and installing compizconfig-backend-kconfig which wasn’t even installed to begin with has fixed my problem.
Anyway I just wanted to take the time to thank you cyberorg. I really appreciate it