Comments on: Debian: Compiz on KDE Installation How-To

By: paul

paul — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:56:05 +0000

Anyone else getting corrupting when starting X or logging in via KDM? The screen comes up, looks fine, then goes to a mess with no response. I cannot get to a console, so something is crashing big time. It can take 3 or 4 power off/on cycles before the desktop is usable. I never had a problem until compiz was configured and I cannot get it all out of the system.

By: abrahamma

abrahamma — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:52:25 +0000

Hi, i have the same problem, the window borders disappear and looks like compiz isn’t working, this is the output from konsole

Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1024×768) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) – Warn: Plugin ‘gconf’ already active

what is xgl? should i have it installed? I use the nvidia driver for amd64 version 173.14.12

By: angelblade

angelblade — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:12:22 +0000

It’s a Good tutorial. xD

By: kuki

kuki — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:00:53 +0000

ive installed
compizconfig-backend-kconfig
compizconfig-settings-manager
and compiz started normally (i had the same error with no borders)
i hope it helps

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:28:03 +0000

Heyho, thx for the nice tutorial. I followed all the steps and i get the same error as described: my window borders are missing. now i type “kwin –replace” in the console, and the borders are restored BUT if i close the console i the bugs are restored and i have to restart my X because nothing works anymore.

Is there any way to avoid the problem with the missing borders?

(i use the XFX nvidia 6800 XT)

By: pederchr

pederchr — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:20:19 +0000

Thanks for a nice and useful HOWTO. I used it and got compiz to work, mostly. There are still a single outstanding issue, however.

First a little input that others might feel useful:

I prefer to start compiz by bypassing the Debian /usr/bin/compiz which is a gnome-biased wrapper. This is what I do in my .kde/Autostart/compiz.desktop:

Exec=compiz.real –no-fbo –replace gconf & kde-window-decorator &

It works really well. kde-window-decorator does not have to “–replace” anything because the gtk-window-decorator started by the wrapper is not started when you use compiz.real.

The single problem that prevents me from shifting wholly to use compiz for my daily work is the fact that KDE does not seem to know how to store the relations of windows to compiz “faces”. In KDE Control Center I have reduced the number of “Desktop”s to 1. However, when I move my open windows around to different faces of the compiz “cube”, logout and login again, the windows are all collapsed to the first face of the “cube”.

Any ideas about how this problem can be solved? Personally, I don’t even know how KDE stores the relations of windows to Desktops under kwin. But I am willing to learn. And I am not willing to start using a system that cannot store its own configuration….

By: mschnide

mschnide — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:09:32 +0000

I’ve solved my problem: I have to change all the things not as a normal user!
I could it resolve only as root!
Because I start kde through kdm and not with startkde, I have to execute the line:
compiz –replace gconf & kde-window-decorator &
also as root!

Thanks, for the replies …

By: gsf

gsf — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:42:56 +0000

@mschnide gnome-themes has clearlooks for gnome. For kde you need kde-style-klearlook.

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By: Yien Bin

Yien Bin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:07:11 +0000

Hello. Try to logout your KDE session, and login back, with Compiz set to autostart.