[compiz] Building Compiz

[Grant Patterson]

That did it, thanks!

While I'm at it, I'll say I had some other issues building that I'd already 
gotten past. I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything to screw up the permissions, 
but I got this:
cursor.c:197: fatal error: opening dependency file .deps/cursor.pp: Permission 
denied

And before that, it complained about not being able to find [config.h].in, which 
seems like a problem where a script wasn't removing brackets around a variable 
when it should. (These configure scripts, autogen, aclocal, etc etc are all 
Greek to me.) I copied config.h.in to [config.h].in and it worked fine.

I also had to install moc, which wasn't on the list of packages I'd need, and 
needed to symlink it from /usr/bin/ to /bin, as that's where make looked for it.


Now, when I run compiz, it's totally broken. The terminal I run it from says:

compiz: Unable to parse XML metadata from file "core.xml"

And the X server and all the windows (some of which have disappeared or lost 
parts of themselves) are totally unresponsive. Any help?


Let me say that I really appreciate what the open source community does. Heck, 
without it, I wouldn't have a job! It's the least I can do to contribute some of 
my time. However, it doesn't bode well for a project when it's as difficult as 
it's been for me to get working. I'm relatively new to Linux (1 year, and my 
primary PC is a Mac), but I'm a software developer, and have had problem after 
problem getting Compiz's source into my work machine, compiling it, running it. 
I know very little about the challenges of distributing a highly configurable 
window manager to work with all kinds of Linux flavors, metacity/kde/etc, all 
that. But my experience has been a real mess.


David Reveman wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 19:12 -0700, Grant Patterson wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I work at VMware, where I'm making the multi-monitor feature new in Workstation 
>> 6.0 (just released!) more robust. Long story short, window managers don't 
>> consistently expose a good way for a single window to go fullscreen across more 
>> than monitor, which is what we need to do to display the monitors we expose to a 
>> guest virtual machine. So we've proposed a new hint for the wm-spec that lets us 
>> do this in a clean way; anticipating its approval (or something close to it), 
>> I'm implementing the functionality in a variety of window managers, including 
>> Compiz.
>>
>> Anyway, I got the source via git and I'm trying to build it. I'm not having much 
>> luck. I'm running Ubuntu Dapper and have the latest version of XFixes according 
>> to apt-get, but get this error when I try make:
>> cursor.o: In function `addCursor':/src/compiz/src/cursor.c:57: undefined 
>> reference to `XFixesHideCursor'
>>
>> Any idea what's going on?
> 
> You'll need a newer version of xfixes and it's a bug that the configure
> script doesn't check for this. However, that cursor code is not yet used
> so I just disabled the call to XFixesHideCursor for now. If you get the
> latest changes it should not be a problem anymore. configure.ac should
> be adjusted to require a newer version of xfixes once we enable this
> cursor code.
> 
> - David
>