Xgl: command not found

Olympeus · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 11

Hey all,

I just installed xgl by following the guide at Gentoo-Wiki but I ran into a problem that I just can't seem to fix :S. I emerge xgl and compiz and all the other stuff mentioned in the guide. Now that I want to start xgl with the command:

Philantrop · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:12 am Post subject:

Check if /usr/bin/Xgl exists. If it doesn't, re-emerge Xgl and keep an eye on it. I suspect there was a compilation failure.

Olympeus · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 11

It doesn't exist. That's what I meant to say

I tried to re-emerge it. It emerged succesfully, but after emerging there just isn't a Xgl binary anywhere on my system :S

Philantrop · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject:

Oh, ok. :-)

Please re-emerge again but pipe the output into a file:

Olympeus · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 11

Hi, I'm sorry for the slow reply.
It seems that it was a problem with my hdd :S
I discovered it by accident because I replaced my old hdd with a new one and re-installed Gentoo because it was a test-install.
Now almost everything is working fine except for a couple of things.
I'm using KDE and I followed the instructions for using Xgl with it in the Gentoo-Wiki. I can spin the cube and things like that (beautiful by the way) but I can't re-arrange my windows with the F12 button and I can't re-arrange windows from the same application with the F11 button. Also I tend to use the the alt-F2 shortcut a lot to run applications but this has stopped working.

Do you know what the problem is?

Philantrop · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry, I can't really say why it doesn't work for you. I've switched from Xgl/compiz back to plain old X.org X11 and fvwm so I didn't follow the latest developments with compiz.

When I last used compiz, it used F10 for window scaling. Maybe you should try that.
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Olympeus · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 11

Nope, doesn't work. Hmm, maybe someone else know something about this?

Olympeus · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 11

anyone?

Jupiter1TX · Guru Joined: 24 Feb 2006 Posts: 546 Location: 3rd Rock

Liju · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 25

Hi I cannot localize compizrc, could You give me a hint, where is it? Maybe it will help with my problem (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-466342-highlight-.html).

Jupiter1TX · Guru Joined: 24 Feb 2006 Posts: 546 Location: 3rd Rock

Olympeus · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 11

thanks for the tip, but it isn't working.
Maybe it is because I editted my kdmrc to start Xgl on load?
I haven't had the time to really read me into Xgl yet but is it possible that /usr/bin/compizrc isn't being read by compiz/xgl at all and I have to edit another file or am I just talking crap here?