After putting it off for months, I finally caved in and installed the compiz-fusion eyecandy. Getting compiz-fusion to work on Fedora 7 is really easy. Just follow this step by step guide.
- Install the Livna repository.
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
- Install video card drivers. This worked flawlessly for my Nvidia GeForce 7200 GT.
yum install kmod-nvidia
- Install the Kage Senshi repository. Paste this, as root, into a terminal window.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ cat << EOF > kagesenshi.repo [kagesenshi] name=KageSenshi Package Repository baseurl=http://devel.foss.org.my/~kagesenshi/repo/pub/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 EOF
- Install the Compiz-Fusion packages.
- For Gnome:
yum install compiz-gnome compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compizconfig-settings-manager fusion-icon-gtk emerald emerald-themes
- For KDE:
yum install compiz-kde compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compizconfig-settings-manager fusion-icon-qt
- For Gnome:
- Run the program.
fusion-icon
- Reboot.
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Worked like a charm, thanks.
Thanks for the feedback. Glad I could help.
I’m almost there, but I keep getting timeouts in yum, trying to download the packages from the Kage Senshi repository. Are there any mirrors that you know of? The worst part is, it gets to about 90% and then times out on the last 2 packages. So close, yet so far away :-/
It’s not working for me.
I followed the guide step by step and everything installed just fine. However, every time I try to run fusion-icon or I click on Desktop Effect, it just restarts X Window and I have to log back in. In the end I don’t get the 3D desktop.
Ryan,
Do you have the drivers for your video card installed? The same thing happened to me at first, but I removed the drivers from nvidia.com and installed the one from the livna repository.
Yes I do. I always use kmod-nvidia from the livna repository. I’m trying to find out what is wrong. If I install Beryl and try to run Beryl Manager, it does the exact same thing.
Same problem if I go to ‘System Tools’ > ‘NVIDIA Display Settings’ and click on ‘OpenGL/GLX Information’
Or if I simply type the ‘glxinfo’ commant in a terminal. Every time all it does is restarting X and getting me back to the login screen.
It sounds like you’re having 3d acceleration problems. I assume that you also get an X crash when you run glxgears in a terminal window. One place you can start looking is /var/log/Xorg.0.log
I would also search fedoraforum.org and create a new post if the search results don’t help.
Valdrith,
I don’t know of any mirrors of the repo. Are you still having this issue?
Thanks for the tips James.
I found the trouble and X stopped crashing. I also managed to get compiz fusion working (sort of) but it was too buggy on my computer so I removed it.
On second thought, I’ve decided to give it another try and now it’s working! It’s great to finally have 3D effects. Now there’s only one small bug to fix and everything will be perfect.
It has to do with the cursor. Sometimes it simply disappears and if I minimize or close a window, a small piece of that window lingers on the desktop (a square-shaped piece from where the cursor was after i clicked in the close/minimize icon) it vanishes when I move the cube. I’ll go check at the compiz-fusion forum to find a fix
Thanks again James!
Glad I could help.
Thinks fore this guide James! It was no pain in the ass at all to install!!
Jos
i no longer have a window manager. It seems everything is working except for the window manager and i have no idea how to fix it.
I get the following error from the fusion-icon:
[root@localhost digduality]# fusion-icon
* Using the Qt4 Interface
* No module named PyQt4
… Trying another interface
* Using the Qt3 Interface
* Searching for installed applications…
/usr/bin/ccsm
/usr/bin/compiz
/usr/bin/kde-window-decorator
/usr/bin/emerald
/usr/bin/metacity
/usr/bin/kwin
* kde session
* Decorator “” is invalid.
… choosing kde-window-decorator –replace as default decorator
* Executing: compiz –replace –sm-disable –ignore-desktop-hints ccp
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/fusion-icon”, line 129, in
choose_interface()
File “/usr/bin/fusion-icon”, line 101, in choose_interface
import_interface(interface)
File “/usr/bin/fusion-icon”, line 73, in import_interface
choose_interface()
File “/usr/bin/fusion-icon”, line 101, in choose_interface
import_interface(interface)
File “/usr/bin/fusion-icon”, line 66, in import_interface
exec(’import ‘ + module)
File “”, line 1, in
SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call
and the /usr/bin/fusion-icon file is as follows:
import os, sys, time
def help():
print ‘Usage: fusion-icon [action|interface]‘
print
print ‘ –help Display this text’
print ‘ –reset Remove fusion-icon configuration file’
print ‘ –sleep n Sleep for n seconds before launching’
print
print ‘Interfaces:’
print ‘ –gtk Use the pygtk 2.10 interface’
print ‘ –qt3 Use the PyQt3 interface’
print ‘ –qt4 Use the PyQt4 interface’
sys.exit()
def reset():
#cut-and-pasted from libfusionicon to avoid a full load for –reset
if os.environ.has_key(’XDG_CONFIG_HOME’):
config_folder = os.environ['XDG_CONFIG_HOME']
else:
config_folder = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], ‘.config’)
config_file = os.path.join(config_folder, ‘fusion-icon’)
print ‘* Configuration file (’ + config_file + ‘) being reset’
try:
if os.path.exists(config_file):
config_backup = os.path.join(config_folder, ‘fusion-icon.backup.’ + str(int(time.time())))
os.rename(config_file, config_backup)
print ‘… backed up to:’, config_backup
else:
print ‘… no configuration found’
print ‘* Configuration reset’
except:
print ‘* Error: configuration reset failed’
sys.exit(1)
sys.exit()
interfaces={’gtk’:(’GTK’, (’pygtk’, ‘interface_gtk’)),
‘qt4′:(’Qt4′, (’PyQt4′, ‘interface_qt4′)),
‘qt3′:(’Qt3′, (’qt’, ‘ctypes’, ‘interface_qt3′))}
def import_interface(interface):
try:
print ‘* Using the ‘ + interfaces[interface][0] + ‘ Interface’
for module in interfaces[interface][1]:
exec(’import ‘ + module)
except ImportError, e:
print ‘*’, e
#doesn’t work so remove it from the dict
del interfaces[interface]
print ‘… Trying another interface’
choose_interface()
sys.exit()
def choose_interface():
def has(interface):
return interfaces.has_key(interface)
#handle explicit arguments first:
if has(’gtk’) and ‘–gtk’ in args: interface = ‘gtk’
elif has(’qt4′) and ‘–qt4′ in args: interface = ‘qt4′
elif has(’qt3′) and ‘–qt3′ in args: interface = ‘qt3′
#use qt* for kde; gtk for everything else:
elif has(’qt4′) and desktop == ‘kde’: interface = ‘qt4′
elif has(’qt3′) and desktop == ‘kde’: interface = ‘qt3′
elif has(’gtk’): interface = ‘gtk’
#try qt* for non-kde:
elif has(’qt4′): interface = ‘qt4′
elif has(’qt3′): interface = ‘qt3′
#interfaces is empty
else:
print ‘* Error: All interfaces failed, aborting!’
sys.exit(1)
import_interface(interface)
#Abbreviate for readability
args = sys.argv
## Detect and run args
# If we’re running –help or –reset, don’t progress past it
if ‘–help’ in args or ‘-h’ in args:
help()
if ‘–reset’ in args:
reset()
#If there is a positive integer following ‘–sleep’ in args, sleep for that time
try:
seconds = int(args[args.index('--sleep') + 1])
if seconds > 0:
time.sleep(seconds)
except:
pass #don’t fail, just move on…
# Remove the need to import libfusionicon.py
# We’ll detect kde right here
if os.environ.has_key(’KDE_FULL_SESSION’): desktop = ‘kde’
elif os.environ.has_key(’DESKTOP_SESSION’): desktop = os.environ['DESKTOP_SESSION']
else: desktop = ”
# Use what’s specified, or use autodetection
choose_interface()
as you can see for “chose_interface()” nothing is in the parenthesis. What should be there?
Hmm, I’m not sure what could cause that, I’m trying to install it on a new machine right now, but can’t reach the repository.
I saw that you posted this problem on FedoraForum, so I’ll keep an eye on the thread there, and if I come up with anything to contribute, I’ll add it there. Good luck!
Hi
I get the following error when I try to run the fusion-icon command:
* Using the GTK Interface
* /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: symbol png_set_expand_gray_1_2_4_to_8, version PNG12_0 not defined in file libpng12.so.0 with link time reference
… Trying another interface
* Using the Qt4 Interface
* No module named PyQt4
… Trying another interface
* Using the Qt3 Interface
* No module named interface_qt3
… Trying another interface
* Error: All interfaces failed, aborting!
I’m quite new in Linux and I’m not sure what graphic card I’m using… can you help me??
Thanks
Seems like I’m out of luck….. who own’s this repo? Is it ever coming back online?
# yum install compiz-kde compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compizconfig-settings-manager fusion-icon-qt
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
http://devel.foss.org.my/%7Ekagesenshi/repo/pub//repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:32:30 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/5.2.3
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: kagesenshi
The repo is up. Take a look at /etc/yum.repos.d/kagesenshi.repo
Make sure this line looks right baseurl=http://devel.foss.org.my/~kagesenshi/repo/pub/$basearch/
At http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/08/30/howto-compiz-fusion-on-fedora-7/ the two lines:
yum install compiz-gnome compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compizconfig-settings-manager fusion-icon-gtk emerald emerald-themes
yum install compiz-kde compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compizconfig-settings-manager fusion-icon-qt
display themselves cut off at the word “settings”, using Firefox on Fedora. It is possible to cut them complete, but I didn’t know that until I tried it.
Thanks! It looks extremely easy!
I am having trouble it says I am missing dependency’s I am missing Python 2.5(Which I installed) and it says I am missing metacity(which is what I am using) So I am not missing anything yet it wont install… Any ideas??
Hi, I’ve manage to install compiz fusion succesfully but when I tried to run “fusion-icon” all the windows border and title bar is missing…any idea what is happening?
this is the error message:
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# fusion-icon
* Using the GTK Interface
* Searching for installed applications…
/usr/bin/ccsm
/usr/bin/compiz
/usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator
/usr/bin/emerald
/usr/bin/metacity
/usr/bin/kwin
* gnome session
* Decorator “” is invalid.
… choosing gtk-window-decorator –replace as default decorator
* Intel found, exporting: INTEL_BATCH=1
* No GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap present with direct rendering context
… present with indirect rendering, exporting: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
* Executing: compiz –replace –sm-disable –ignore-desktop-hints ccp –indirect-rendering
compiz (dbus) - Error: dbus_bus_get error: 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.
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn’t activate plugin ‘dbus’
compiz (decoration) - Warn: Property ignored because version is 20061011 and decoration plugin version is 20070319
compiz (decoration) - Warn: Property ignored because version is 20061011 and decoration plugin version is 20070319
compiz (decoration) - Warn: Property ignored because version is 20061011 and decoration plugin version is 20070319
compiz (cube) - Warn: Failed to load slide: freedesktop
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/fusion-icon”, line 129, in
choose_interface()
File “/usr/bin/fusion-icon”, line 101, in choose_interface
import_interface(interface)
File “/usr/bin/fusion-icon”, line 66, in import_interface
exec(’import ‘ + module)
File “”, line 1, in
File “/usr/share/fusion-icon/interface_gtk.py”, line 238, in
gtk.main()
KeyboardInterrupt
Hey Ryan ,
i am haveing EXACTLY the same problems as you did with
compiz.
So please can u e-mail , or answer me here how did you fixed your problem??
thanks
Hi everyone!,
Actually I don’t have the Internet connection at my home so I could not download these files (packages) to install compiz-fusion. However, I can download the packages from the repositories while at office and install them later one on my home PC. So can anyone provide links to (single file/package) that I just download and then install without any problem? I tried to download the compiz-fusion files from Fedora repository however, there are a lot of files there to download and the installation process is not clear for installing the downloaded packages from the local machine. I need to have single source installation without tears. Any help??
We have the same problem with Mr. Shahid Hussain I do have a Fedora Core 7 at home and I don’t have an internet connection, so my question goes the same. I download necessary files but upon installing it, it generates a series of discrepancies and it’s very frustrating on my part. Hope you guys can help.
Can any one plz guide to get compiz fusion on RHEL 5
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