[compiz] Compiling under Fedora C6

[Pierpaolo Follia]

Thank you very much to all. I was missing the libwnck-devel package,
now I can compile compiz without problem.

Bye,
Pierpaolo

On 10/27/06, Julian Sikorski <lordzanon at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> Mark Rosenstand napisał(a):
> > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 12:03 +0200, Pierpaolo Follia wrote:
> >> Hi to all. I've just installed a Fedora Core 6 on a Desktop here,
> >> adding the default distro compiz package. I've some problem when the
> >> screen saver starts: when I try to enter my password to unlock the
> >> system, the window has no textbox in which enter my password...I have
> >> to kill from a console the gnome-screensaver to unlock the system.
> >
> > You should file a bug at the Fedora site.
> >
> >> I saw the version of compiz provided with the distro is really old
> >> (0.13) and I would like to compile the 0.3.2 to try if I can solve the
> >> problem.
> >> When I run the ./configure I get this:
> >>
> >> the following optional plugins will be compiled:
> >>   gconf: yes
> >>   place: yes
> >>   dbus:  yes
> >>
> >> and the following optional features will be compiled:
> >>   svg:      no
> >>   gtk:      no
> >>   metacity: no
> >>   gnome:    no
> >>   kde:      no
> >>
> >> What is actually needed to compile compiz with metacity, gtk and gnome support?
> >> Is there somewhere a fc6 rpm of compiz 0.3.2?
> >
> > You are probably missing the respective -devel packages. That said,
> > compiz on Fedora is patched to use AIGLX instead of Xgl - some of the
> > patches have been merged, but I'm not sure if vanilla compiz is going to
> > work with AIGLX.
> >
> > That said, nothing major has changed since CVS was called 0.0.13 (which
> > never had a real release), except for metacity theme support.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> >
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> > compiz at lists.freedesktop.org
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
> >
> Here is what I have done:
> 1. Grabbed fedora compiz source rpm
> 2. Checked out git compiz
> 3. Tarred it into compiz-current.tar.bz2
> 4. Tweaked the spec (you have to pass --enable-librsvg to configure for
> svg supoort), built the rpm and installed it.
> Keep in mind that desktop-effect will not work with latest vanilla
> compiz, but everything else (apart form metacity theme support) works
> like charm. Hope that helps. I'm attaching the tweaked spec.
>
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