Ubuntu :: Just Installed Docky - Need Compositing?
Jan 28, 2011Docky says it needs compositing to work properly how do I enable this?
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Ubuntu :: 10.04 - Compositing With Docky, No Window Headers?
Apr 30, 2010I am a somewhat new user to Ubuntu, and I just upgraded to 10.04 from 9.10. I did not do a clean install, just an upgrade by running "update-manager -d". Once I upgraded, lots of problems started happening:
- I booted up, and nothing came up but text like in a command prompt; not a splash screen. Is that correct? - When I logged in, none of my windows had tops (i.e. Window Title, Buttons for minimize, maximize, and close). I changed the theme and turned on the max graphical effects, and that fixed it. (by the way, I know my graphics card can handle it because that is how it was set up on 9.10)
- ...Then, I took off the bottom panel and added Docky. Once I added my icons to it, I restarted, and then the window headers were once again gone, and Docky popped up a message in the top right saying it needed Composite support turned on (i.e. Metacity or Compiz). I turned it on in Metacity (I also have Compiz installed), but nothing changed. So now I have no tops to my windows and have to resort to ALT+F4 to close windows, etc, and I have a huge black rectangle taking up the lower 1/4 of my screen that is just black, with Docky in it...it isn't just a border around it like some other posts have said, but rather takes up almost half my screen.
Ubuntu :: Compositing With Docky, No Window Headers?
Sep 4, 2010When I logged in, none of my windows had tops (i.e. Window Title, Buttons for minimize, maximize, and close). Also docky give an error msg : Docky requries Composting to work probably. And I should click on compiz fusion icon and select compiz window manager every time I boot up. So how can I fix it please??
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Jul 4, 2011I'm running 10.10 on a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop. It worked perfect before but I had to do a reinstall of 10.10 and can't remember how to get Docky to work right. At present my screen looks like this: see attachedAs you can see I only have use of 75 % of my screen
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Nov 25, 2010After boot, first time I log on to Gnome I get compositing error (Docky shows one in top right corner) "Docky requires compositing to work properly. Please enable compositing, and restart Docky.". Furthermore some black wide stripe appears in the bottom of the screen, mouse pointer looks like a black cross and window decoration are missing. If I log off and re-log on everything works like a charm.
After first boot:
After re-log on: Ubuntu 10.10 on Acer Aspire One (A110L) with Compiz enabled and Docky installed.
Debian Multimedia :: Compositing Artifiacts With Compiz - Docky?
Mar 8, 2011After setting a new sid system with Compiz, I noticed the volume display shows a brown/maroon border around the icon. I payed no real mind until I installed Docky which really shows the issue. A solid patch of that same color on either side of the dock. When using Metacity the problem is gone, so I'm thinking it's a Compiz issue or video driver issue. I have an Intel chipset. Screenshot of some of the artifacts. compositing_aritifacts.jpg (36.75 KiB) Viewed 195 times
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Apr 25, 2011root__________:/home/---# docky
[Info 15:10:25.304] Docky version: 2.2.0 bzr docky r1807 ppa
[Info 15:10:25.315] Kernel version: 2.6.35.28
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Ubuntu :: Can't Find Certain Installed Software (Ruby-full Or Docky)
Jun 18, 2011I'm dual booting - windows7 and Ubuntu 11.04. I've found that I'm doing a lot less "dual'n" lately though. Compaq Presario Notebook. I've been installing new software and I've noticed that some of them are not showing up in the App list. I'm showing 92 when I've actually downloaded more. They aren't showing in the Installed Software either, but when I go into the center to make sure I did install it, it says installed. So, I'm guessing there is something simple I'm not familiar with yet to make these programs show up. I installed 7zip and couldn't find it either, however when I click on a zip file to unzip it, it does use this to unzip. I cannot find Ruby-full install or Docky. Plus several others.
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Jun 28, 2011I certainly do not want to install Elementary OS, and just want a similar interface. I already installed docky, but Unity gets in the way. Is there a way I can disable that? Also, can I hide the docky application icon on Docky? Or is there a better way to do this?
View 6 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: ATI Compositing Desktop Bug?
May 11, 2010I am new to linux and ubuntu, but it seems like this bloody bug has not been solved for years. There are many threads as i googled, back from years 2007, 2008... After lucid, i was hoping something (i do not know, if i should have) and googled recently. Found this:[URL].. That xserver thing (which i have tried before for 9.10) does not work!
What am i going to do about this? I cannot even use edge flipping because of that bloody resizing/maximizing problem. I cannot use stuff like docky. No compositing!
Until when should i wait? Is there a possibility of this bug being solved? Should i give my notebook to some windows user and get an nvidia one?
Ubuntu :: Compositing Keeps Switching Off?
Nov 26, 2010I'm running kubuntu, 10.10, 64 bit on my ASUS X59GL, with 4Gb ram - and NVIDIA on board GeForce 8200m.
I'm running KDE with compositing switched on - trouble is that it keeps saying Desktop effects are too slow and compositing is suspended. Surely this setup is powerful enough - this seems to be getting worse with each subsequent release - (a couple of releases ago, this didn't happen).
It's just happened again, and all I'm running is Firefox, nautilus, skype and dropbox (all but firefox are minimised), and uptime load average is .3 Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
Is there any 'ratings' as to how 'expensive' each of the effects are? - i.e. which are the least impact, and which are the most?
Ubuntu :: Get Rid Of Compiz But Still Retain Compositing
May 23, 2010Ive been having some really severe problems with compiz on my computer, and Im at a point of utter frustration.
I want to take compiz off of my computer, but I do not want to lose compositing effects, because I run docky (which needs it to run)
Essentially, the problem with compiz, in a nutshell, is that it continually freezes on me when I try to scroll a webpage too fast, or if a fast-paced flash video plays, or anything that might choke up the window manager does. I end up having to pull up a terminal, killall compiz, then restart it manually; it works again until I try to scroll too quickly or something and then it will lock up again.
I know I could run compiz on this computer, but I dont know why this current version will not cooperate, so in lieu of finding a solution, I kinda want to just purge it.
Ubuntu :: Xubuntu Scrambled Screen After Compositing Turned On
Apr 28, 2010I turned on screen compositing in xubuntu 9.1 and that scrambled the screen and now I can't read the screen. How do I undo that change? If I alt-ctr-F2 that goes to the command line. Then restartx goes back to the scrambled screen. Why does xubuntu recovery mode not offer any option to redo the video. Sorry, I assumed Xubuntu would ask for a confirmation like 'click yes if you can still see the screen' before allowing a change that can toast the system.
Also I tried:
metacity --replace returns Window manager error: Unable to open X display
xfwm4 --replace returns (xfwm4:145: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display
Ubuntu :: Compositing Effects Don't Work With Closed ATI Driver
Jun 28, 2010I've just installed Kubuntu 10.04 (Specifically Linux Mint 9 KDE, but this is definately an upstream problem)
I installed the closed-source driver for my Ati Radeon 4x series using the Hardware Drivers tool. However, when I now reboot, compositing (desktop effects) are disabled.
Going into the Desktop section of System Settings, I recieve an error message "Compositing is temporarily disabled" Clicking "Resume Compositing" pops up a KWin notification saying I need to press Alt+Shift+F12 to resume compositing.
If I do this keyboard shortcut, the Desktop settings dialogue tells me compositing is active, but really it isn't (no desktop effects, software is drawing the windows etc)
Uninstalling the driver and reverting to the open-source one is not an option for me, unless anyone knows how to make Runescape work in OpenGL.
Ubuntu :: Compositing Enabled - Video Get Strange Lines
Jul 17, 2010Whenever I have the composite manager setting ticked my videos get strange lines when I play them but when compositing is not enabled the videos are fine.
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Mar 8, 2011Acer 5742 laptop with Intel HD Graphics.In Xubuntu 10.10 whenever I have display compositing enabled, flash becomes slightly (but noticably and annoyingly) choppy. With hardware acceleration enabled, there's a horizontal line about an inch from the bottom of the screen that is fairly distorted, and with hardware acceleration disabled, it affects the whole screen but to a lesser degree.
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Apr 2, 2011I know Metacity has a flag which enables compositing, and draws shadows under windows. Thing is, I prefer shadows because it helps me distinguish stuff on the desktop - a sort of usability an readability feature for me. However, I don't know if my older Thinkpad is too slow to do compositing in X or Metacity code is not optimized enough (yet), but turning compositing on makes my desktop experience too sluggish for my tastes.
I know Windows XP did shadows without compositing big portions of the screen, and it worked fast enough even for the desktop computers of its day. Anyone knows what are my options here? I like GNOME and/or GTK (haven't though much about the important details here) and would like to keep it. Do I need to switch to Openbox or Fluxbox or something like that? I am on Ubuntu 10.04, Thinkpad T43 with Pentium-M 2.0Ghz, 1GB RAM.
Fedora :: Can't Disable Compositing In Metacity?
May 24, 2010I was installing cairo-deck and to get rid of the black rectangle i enabled compositing.I got bored of it so I uninstalled it but compositing was still there! I tried to disable it with
Code:
gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool false
but all i get is
Code:
# gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool false
Error setting value: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See [URL]... (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.) I'm using fedora 12 32-bit full upgraded
OpenSUSE :: Compositing Is Temporarily Disabled?
Aug 26, 2010This is probably already on these forums, but I recently re-installed suse 11.3 and had the desktop effects working fine with the desktop cube animation and everything. But not the case this time...I resume compositing, and try my desktop effect shortcuts, but nothing happens and it comes up saying for me to press Alt+Shift+F12 to resume the compositing again. I do that, but still nothing, and I even re-apply the desktopct settings completely and restart the computer and it comes up saying that none of them were activated or something in the notifications pop-up on the bottom right of the screen. I thought I downloaded the right files (OpenGL??) from the repositories along with basically anything I thought would make it work.
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Aug 6, 2010I have been going crazy for a few days trying to enable compiz on my tc1100. I have a GeForge 420 legacy card and I compiled the proprietary NVIDIA driver. I realize that this is an old card. So perhaps that is why NVIDIA compositing is not enabled by default. If I go to Desktop settings and try to enable 3D effects, it tells me that compositing is not enabled. So I figured I best go with xlg. I installed all that is necessary for compiz-fusion. However, the command glx is not recognised. I also cannot find a package called xlg. Only patterns-openSUSE-xlg. Shouldn t there be a package for xlg? How do I enable compositing??
This is the contents of my xorg.conf
Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Tue Jul 13 13:31:50 PDT 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection .....
Fedora :: ATI Card And Compositing Support ?
Feb 23, 2010Just got a VisionTek ATI Radeon HD2600Pro, which my Fedora 12 64-bit system seems to have no problem recognizing natively (though it is peculiar that it shows up in lspci as an a 'HD3600' instead of 2600), so things seemed fine ... til I tried to start X. To be thorough: I went from an nVidia Quadro NVS 285 in the system using drivers from rpmfusion, to this card in hopes of getting better graphics and compositing support. So I tried uninstalling the nVidia drivers and kmods, blacklisting radeon and radeonhd mods, installing the stock ATI driver straight from the ATI/AMD site (which included header compilation), and starting X ... no go. Then removed that, installed the OpenDrivers stuff ... still no good. Ended up removing all Xorg configuration (literally removing xorg.conf) and starting X with bare bones. And now X will indeed start up and go into my desktop environment (KDE), but as soon as I open more than a single application window, the system becomes virtually unusable, and compositing is completely out of the question.
Any advice for drivers/config/setup to get this working? Or do I need to go back to my crappy 128MB NVS card?
Ubuntu :: Compositing Has Been Suspended By Another Application, Press Alt+shift+f12 To Resume
Jan 12, 2010Every time I login, compositing is disabled. I have to manually go into settings and Desktop and press 'resume compositing.' When I press it, it says: "compositing has been suspended by another application, press alt+shift+f12 to resume." So if i press the key combination, of course it does resume, but i have to go through this process every time i start the computer. here's my xorg.conf:
Quote:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
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I'm running Kubuntu 9.10 64 bit edition.
Here is my graphics card
[URL]
I've installed the latest drivers
Ubuntu Multimedia :: Dual Monitors + Compositing - Any Success Stories?
Jun 3, 2010I've just upgraded to 10.04 and even if I am able to use my two displays with my Nvidia GPU, it bugs me that I can't use basic transparency controls on my desktop (compositing in Xfce). I've searched all over google and most links say it's impossible to mix Xinerama with Compositing, while others suggest using the old Xgl implementation will do the trick. I've also read things about Xrandr and that it might be a substitute for Xinerama, but it seems Nvidia drivers doesn't support it.
So, basically, I am at the end of my wits and I wanted to ask (shout?) if anyone managed to: 1. use two displays as part of the same desktop AND use compositing (window transparency) 2. or hack the compositing feature to work with some sort of software acceleration instead of hardware acceleration
Google lists all sorts of solutions, but none conclusive. So, is there a way out of this problem, maybe by using nouveau, or Xrandr, or something else entirely?
Ubuntu Multimedia :: Radeon HD 5650 Gets VERY Slow After Enabling Compositing In KDE?
Sep 3, 2010I have a laptop with the radeon HD 5650 video card. I used ubuntu's hardware drivers program to install the official drivers, and it seems to be working well, including 3D acceleration in games. However, it seems that enabling compositing in KDE makes it much slower. For example, running glxgears without compositing gives me about 35000 frames in 5 seconds, after I enable compositing it's only 6000 frames. But it's not just glxgears, the slowness is very noticeable in games as well.
On my old computer, I had an nVidia card, and enabling compositing in KDE made it a little slower, but the difference definitely wasn't that huge. o_O Is it some wrong configuration, a bug in ATI's drivers, or something else?
Debian Multimedia :: Compositing In Kde Not Working After Sid Upgrade
Feb 16, 2011I just ran one of my weekly upgrades last night (I'm using sid with the 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem kernel). Now compositing no longer works with kde (4.4.5). When I click "resume compositing," I get a message saying "Compositing has been suspended by another application." I'm using the radeon driver. My middle mouse button also stopped working after the upgrade, i.e., I can't use it to copy and paste; can't open new tabs in any browser using the middle button. (The mouse works perfectly in my other two computers, both of which still have kde 3.5.10 installed.) None of these problems existed before last night's full-upgrade, so the upgrade definitely broke a few things, and I don't know how to fix them.
glxinfo | grep render says direct rendering is working. But when I run glxgears, I only get text output, without the animated gears. The results from 'glxinfo | grep -i opengl' say "OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880.", and Im guessing that Gallium is causing my compositing problem. Would this also explain why the middle click on my mouse no longer works? Does anyone know how I can get compositing working again, and my mouse?
OpenSUSE :: Enable Compositing Support In KDE4.2?
Feb 12, 2009Configure desktop (Desktop - System Settings) --> Desktop
Message indicates:
Compositing is not supported on your system.
Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available.
I can't find XComposite or XDamage as a package to install with Software Management. code...
OpenSUSE :: Error: Compositing Is Not Supported On Your System
Dec 1, 2010I am receiving the following error when trying to enable Compositing in Desktop Settings for KDE4 in openSuse 11.3-Xen
Code:
Error: Compositing is not supported on your system. Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available. I want to have desktop effects enabled but can't seem to figure out how to get this done. "Advanced" Tab is greyed out. "Enable desktop effects" is greyed out.
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This worked to get X up and running in the Xen kernel. However, I'm pulling what hair I have left trying to figure out how to enable compositing in Xen. The entire motivation for my upgrade was this one feature (amongst some other things).
Please show me where I'm going wrong. I hope this is not a "live with it" type of scenario due to my using Xen.
OpenSUSE Hardware :: Unabling Compositing With Nouveau On 11.3?
Jul 16, 2010Desktop effects are not enabled and in system settings there is the following message "Desktop effects are not available on this system due to the following technical issues: Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available."
The nouveau driver is installed. Peering at /etc/X11/xorg.conf I get three pieces of information
- driver ="nv"
- composite ="off"
- threats of war, famine, death and the other one if I edit the file by hand
I tried Xorg -configure and tested the result as it prompts, but that file seemed to contain errors
I can't find anything in YaST to edit the file
- is "nv" correct?
Apart from backing up xorg.conf (which I have) and firing up a text editor to change "off" to "on" does anyone have any more intelligent suggestions?
Hardware :: Can't Enable Compositing Intel 945GM/GMS?
Sep 23, 2010The title pretty much speaks for itself. All options in Desktop Effects are greyed out and a docking application called Docky asks me to enabled composite effects for it to function properly.
I haven't made any driver installs or anything as I have a knack for breaking video configurations in Linux. Also this might have to do with the problem, I have no xorg.conf file for some reason. I did some searching around but that pointed me into installing packages that I already have :S.
Debian :: Remove The Black Area Behind Conky Without Using Compositing?
Mar 29, 2010I am NOT willing (nor is my IBM T41 for that matter) to make from source the new conky 1.7.2, so can someone give me a deb file for squeeze that I can install to my system to replace my current 1.7.1 conky? I really want to use lua scripts. (Specifically: [URL])
how to remove the black area behind conky without using compositing?