Compiz

[allistarM]

Hi all,
I use KDE Plasma on a 6 monitor setup (across two Nvidia cards using 2 separate x screens). This setup has worked very well for years. I do have a hand patched version of plasma-workspace to workaround a plasma bug in the way it handles (or doesn't handle) multiple x screens. I use compiz. It's very handy and improves my productivity. I heavily use features like shrinking a window down to a smaller (but still functional) thumbnail. I also use the group/tab plugin which allows me to group many related windows together (handy when you have 10 rdesktop sessions running).

Right now compiz works. But the ebuilds I have are out of date. They give an "EAPI=6 not supported" warning in emerge. And just recently pycairo won't update because ccsm wants an older version.

I'd like to still use compiz. I can't find an overlay for it.

Questions:
- is wayland running KDE Plasma ready for a production workstation? Is it known to work in 4+ head environments and with multiple xscreens?
- is wayfire (a compiz equvalent?) fully functional (compared to compiz)?
- how do I get compiz building again? Is there an overlay that has it?

Thanks,
Allistar.

[CooSee]

hello,

compiz is very old and all the the overlays are abandoned

KDE itself has some compiz-like options.

Wayfire is ok >>> compiz on wayland.

you can also try this https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland or https://github.com/WillPower3309/swayfx

i hope it'll help.


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[fpemud]

I'm using gui-wm/wayfire daily.
wayfire is ok for using, but it doesn't have as many plugins as the original compiz.
And from wayland's perspective, the design and plugin model of wayfire/compiz is somehow an overkill. I think I'll move away from wayfire eventually.

[allistarM]

I've looked at the KDE compositor and I could probably get used to it, but it has barely a fraction of the compiz features. A benefit of compiz was emerald which had considerable more window decorations than KDE offers. Has anyone used emerald as a window decorator for KDE/Plasma?

Two compiz features I use a lot that I didn't see in KDE is the ability to group windows together. And also the ability to shrink a window's size and still have it functional.

I may look into seeing what it will take to get compiz at least compiling again. Right now portage complains that it's using EAPI6 which is no longer supported.

[CooSee]

i used ebuilds from this overlay https://github.com/ethus3h/compiz-reloaded-overlay long time ago (now using Sway/Waybar/Wayland only).

maybe one of the forks are still usable https://github.com/CerisWhite/compiz-reloaded-overlay

one day, some ebuilds won't get emerged anymore, therefore i started compiling many packages myself - it's not that hard - you'll learn alot, doing so


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[allistarM]

I've made my own Compiz-reloaded overlay and have converted it from EAPI6 to EAPI8. I've made a pull request against the CerisWhite overlay for this. If anyone want to use my overlay let me know. These EAPI changes means I can emerge ccsm (at least) and portage doesn't complain about the EAPI version any more.

[CooSee]

[Zucca]

Wayfire anyone?
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[allistarM]

[asturm]

You may want to try Plasma 5.27 beta since it contains rewritten multimonitor support.

[allistarM]

[asturm]

Plasma 5.27.0 was released today.

[allistarM]

Here's an overlay that allow compiz to install at the date of writing this. The main change is upgrading the EAPI version from 6 to 8:

[edward_scott]

[allistarM]

[edward_scott]

that did it, and now the "EAPI=6 not supported" errors are gone. perfect!

ty for maintaining this new overlay.