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

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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links for 2007-10-22 - Leere Signifikanten — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:31:55 +0000

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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.

By: nadav kavalerchik

nadav kavalerchik — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:03:28 +0000

i’m getting this on ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
with debian sid (open source ati driver from experimental)

laptop:~# compiz –replace gconf & kde-window-decorator &
[1] 10824
[2] 10825
laptop:~#
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is not available with direct rendering.
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is available with indirect rendering.
QMetaObject::findSignal:smoothblend::smoothblendClient: Conflict with KDecoration::keepAboveChanged(bool)
QMetaObject::findSignal:smoothblend::smoothblendClient: Conflict with KDecoration::keepBelowChanged(bool)
QMetaObject::findSignal:smoothblend::smoothblendClient: Conflict with KDecoration::keepAboveChanged(bool)
QMetaObject::findSignal:smoothblend::smoothblendClient: Conflict with KDecoration::keepBelowChanged(bool)
QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image

[2]+ Done kde-window-decorator

the window manager is lost and i get windows without titles and frames, until i go back to kwin.
any ideas ?

By: A M Shamil

A M Shamil — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:48:41 +0000

I am a Debian user. I have plugged ATI Rage128, Card. I just try to install Beryl Desktop… its got installed and able to run thr beryl manager but Beryl theme is not working. I am expecting solutions from anyone?

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Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:56:12 +0000

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By: Yien Bin

Yien Bin — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:41:03 +0000

mschnide, when you see messages like that. Try to verify that is the compiz running already or not. I ran into problem like that before, said “theme cannot be found”, so it has a borderless window. Try to change “style” in your Kcontrol.