[Tfug] Update - Honeymoon over: Was: Wootness! Etch + KDE + Xgl + Compiz + NVIDIA working!

[Chad Woolley]

So, a full-disclosure update on this.

This morning, I did a reboot, and my window decorators were flashing.
Looked like Emerald was crashing and restarting constantly, from
looking at the PIDs.  Also, xgl was hogging CPU, and some apps failed
to open or took forever.  I had to restart X several times and switch
emerald skins, and then the problems went away.

Also, IntelliJ Idea mysteriously does not initially render the window
contents under Beryl.  Dialogs work, and menus and stuff are there and
clickable, but nothing but white for window contents.  If I switch to
Gnome window manager, then back to Beryl, then everything magically
shows up again.  Upgrading to latest version of Idea did not help.

All in all, not too bad, considering it's bleeding edge stuff.  At
least I worked around :)

-- Chad


On 10/27/06, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Me too, woohoo.  I've got Etch running Nvidia/Beryl/Emerald on dual
> 24" flatscreen monitors with Twinview, at 1920x1200 on each monitor
> (my company paid for the monitors, no way do I have that kind of
> cash).  I also have Java, RealPlayer, and Flash running under Firefox
> and Mozilla.  I also have video working for every type of real, mpeg,
> windows media that I've thrown at it.  This took me about 2 days to
> crank through (and most of that was figuring out that the linux nvidia
> driver wouldn't show 1920x1200 over a DVI/VGA KVM cable, even though
> windows would)
>
> It... Is.... Incredible.
>
> Beryl/Emerald isn't just eyecandy (although the eyecandy is stunning)
> - it's got a lot of functional stuff packed in there.  Complete
> comprehensive control over your hotkeys, desktop, window manager and
> workspaces.
>
> I think that Ubuntu 6.10 Etch might just have been the historic
> turning point where the Linux desktop finally became fully usable for
> mere mortals who know enough to search and read the Ubuntu Wiki, and
> follow instructions.  The extensive (and mostly accurate) howto's on
> Ubuntu's site are what really make the difference.  Well, I didn't try
> wireless, but I don't want to push my luck :)
>
> It's a happy day.
>
> -- Chad
>
> On 10/23/06, Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For those of us who are suckers for eye-candy and have always wanted to run
> > Compiz inside KDE on our Debian boxes, I have posted a mini-HOWTO on how to
> > install the appropriate software. Here's the link:
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=494963
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > Jude Nelson
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