[compiz] Compiz 8.6 on openSuSE 11.0 -- Success! But need help with a few issues.

[Danny Baumann]

Hi,

> Dominique, you wanted the feedback, and List, I need your help. I have
> installed and fully configured (kicked the tires) on compiz 8.6 on openSuSE 11.0
> and on balance it is great. There are a few weird things going on. Most notably,
> the number of options in ccsm that now uncheck themselves. In the past (compiz
> 0.5.6 - 0.8.2) there may have been one or two that would stick on some weird XGL
> issue, but I have a dozen or so that will not 'activate' for lack of better
> words. (you check -> they uncheck 1-5 secs later)

When that happens, compiz was unable to load the plugin you tried to
activate. In your specific case ...

> compiz-0.8.6-46.1
> compiz-branding-openSUSE-0.8.6-46.1
> compizconfig-settings-manager-0.8.4-3.2
> compiz-emerald-0.8.2-2.2
> compiz-emerald-themes-0.6.0-16.1
> compiz-gnome-0.8.6-46.1
> compiz-kde-0.8.6-46.1
> compiz-plugins-extra-0.8.6-5.2
> compiz-plugins-main-0.8.2-100.1
> compiz-plugins-unsupported-0.8.2-100.1

... you're mixing compiz-0.8.6 with plugins-main and plugins-unsupported
of 0.8.2. There was an ABI bump inbetween, so this isn't going to work.

> Strange, 8.6 intentionally ignored my existing config in
> ~/.config/compizconfig and created a new configuration in
> ~/.config/compizconfig-1, which was fine because it left my 8.2 config as a
> reference. If interested, the 8.2 config is here:

That sounds ... weird, and upstream libcompizconfig definitely doesn't
do that. Dominique, is there some magic involved in that in your
packages? ;-)

> The first issue I notice with compiz 8.6 was slow rotation when using the
> mouse to rotate the cube, cylinder, sphere and that the aspect ratio of the
> cylinder was more hockey puck like than usual. There were blurs or pixelations
> around the top edge of the cylinder that were noticeable as pixelation of the
> top 2 lines of the screen when switching faces with the keyboard and were
> readily visible in the screenshot of the cylinder:

I vote for a driver problem. Neither cube, nor rotate or cubeaddon were
touched between 0.8.2 and 0.8.6.

> What I can't figure out is how can 'Cube Gears' work, but not 'Photowheel'?? A
> screenshot of the current 8.6 setup:

You probably need to recompile photowheel, you didn't install it as part
of a package, did you?

Regards,

Danny