Hi Ben,

I generally stay away from Compiz and Intel hardware, as the Intel drivers are generally horrid as far as fancy hardware acceleration goes..

k9copy-kde3 is now in the repository (I even updated the version to the latest). fusion-icon-kde3 is next on my list of things to do.

Tim

B. Buchli wrote:

Ok, it looks like compiz is broken for intel x server, and it's not related to the kde3 repository.
If anybody has gotten compiz working reliably without hanging on a lenovo t400 please let me know how you did it. ;-)
Tim, would it be possible to get k9copy and fusion-icon for kde3?

Thanks a lot!

Ben

B. Buchli wrote:

Tim,
thanks a lot. Will give it a shot tonight, and let you know asap!

Ben

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net <mailto:kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>> wrote:

    Hi Ben,

    I believe I have fixed the problem--why don't you give it a try
    and see if it works properly on your end as well. :-)

    Tim

    B. Buchli wrote:

    Tim,
    yeah, it's a custom i386 kernel. If you need any help with
    fixing this, let me know what I can do.

    Thanks a lot!

    Ben

    kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net <mailto:kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>
    wrote:

    Hi Ben,

    You're right! Are you running an i386 kernel? For some reason
    my amd64
    system shows the correct -kde3 dependencies, while my i386
    system shows
    the same incorrect dependencies as yours.

    I'll add this info to the bug report so I don't forget...

    Tim


    Tim,
    thanks for your response, and I'm sorry I didn't know there was
    a bug
    filed.
    If I try and install emerald-kde3 I get the following
    dependencies:
    compiz-core
    compiz-plugins
    compiz-wrapper
    libdecoration0
    libemeraldengine0-kde3

    note that there is only one -kde3... the installation then
    fails because:
    E:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-core_1%3a0.7.8-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb:
    trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/compiz.1.gz', which is
    also in
    package compiz-core-kde3

    I am pretty sure I have installed all the necessary packages, and
    believe that the problem is the non-kde3 dependencies.

    Thanks a lot!

    Ben

    Timothy Pearson wrote:

    Have you installed emerald-kde3? How are you attempting to
    enable
    Emerald? Does the rest of Compiz work properly?

    At the moment, -kde3 compiz and emerald cannot be installed
    simultaneously with non-kde3 compiz and emerald due to bug 57
    (http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=57). That
    bug is
    next on my list of problems to deal with.

    Tim

    B. Buchli wrote:

    So I finally found some time to (try and) set up compiz on my
    laptop
    again. It used to work on 8.04, but seems to be broken now.     If I
    install only compiz stuff with -kde3, I can use only the
    sluggish gtk
    window decorator. If I try and install emerald I have non-kde3
    dependencies. This of course does not install cleanly
    because it
    says "already in package XY." Any help would be greatly
    appreciated.

    Thanks!

    Ben