XGL (Part 4)

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

I thought e17 didn't support xgl? That and I think it is asking for you to specify DISPLAY=:0.. If that doesn't work, I think it is the lack of support with xgl.. (Read something about it a while ago, I am probably wrong though)

reflex · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 38

no, enlightenment doesn't have support for xgl, and i don't believe they ever will.

as for myself, i setup entranced to work with xgl, with no luck. xgl seems to start, it gives me the little wristwatch icon, wait for about 30s and it turns into an x. still get the usual gray background. i still can't seem to start xgl from tty, only from embedded xterms, wondering if anyone else has had this problem or maybe has some insight?

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

reflex · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 38

well, it seems iàve got it all figured out. except for the fact that i now have a de keyboard, but i know how to fix that.

all i did was change the GdmXservertimeout to 60, apparently 25 isnàt enough.

thanks for your help everyone! youàve made someoneàs day

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

Everyone, compiz-quinnstorm-0.0.14 and gset-compiz are now located on the new SRC_URI... From revision 212 and forward, things will be located at http://distfiles.xgl-coffee.org which all new ebuilds will use. As I said, c-q and g-q are now usable without emailing me for the final, so happy merging!

sternklang · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 3:35 am Post subject:

Thanks, nesl247!

One problem though:

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

Hold on a minute while I smack myself...

Ok fixed.. I have to repackage it otherwise it doesn't work properly, and I forgot to include the version in the dir name. This is what I get for doing it so late at night..

Edit: Don't forget to rm /usr/portage/distfiles/gset-compiz-0.3.3-r1.tar.bz2 first otherwise it won't redownload.

sternklang · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 3:53 am Post subject:

Cool, thanks, but it does need a new digest to match the new file size. :wink:

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

Ugh, why doesn't portage ever do anything nicely!

Svn up, and try it again.. It unpacked for me.

sternklang · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 4:10 am Post subject:

I already re-digested it, I just wanted to let you know before someone else ran into it. Rev 214 works fine.

Thanks again to you and CoffeeBuzz for all your work on this, it's much appreciated!

eitan1989 · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 48 Location: USA

Definitely thanks. Between the time my auto-updates ran and when I saw that the verification had failed, you had already fixed the digest.

Devport · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 361

OK, what the heck. So now trunk is more up to date than testing ? I think it would be better to remove one of those again. Since the day coffeebuzz created the two branches always either of them had newer ebuilds and its not funny too always switch between them.

billfrith · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 17 Location: UK

saphear · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 34

hey all,
first: i got to admit, i didnt read all of the 28 pages of this topic and not everything of the other 3 topics..would take me ages

i got two probably and hopefully easy questions:

situation: i played around with xgl now the second time, running it on a ~amd64 system...first time i had some installing problems, fixed them and it worked but i didnt keep playing. this time i had no problems at all, i followed the wiki and it runs fine.

question1: when i start xgl rootless, i can start applications simply with DISPLAY=:1 application ..using the startxgl script from the wiki, it starts fine and even shows me a desktop with some icons of my harddrives etc, but i dont have any menu or somekind of terminal...how do i get some kind of menu?

question2: rootless, i can start xgl as a user, including the applications etc...with startxgl i cant, gives me an error. any ideas?
*edit*: second question aint a question anymore =)

AmosMutke · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 10:15 am Post subject:

Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

Xorg-7.1 is out, it has no XGL inside but AIGLX.
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nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

You sure? I thought it had XGL but disabled by default in ./configure?

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hiroki · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:39 am Post subject:

thomasvk · Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 597

Isn't that just good? Doesn't AIGLX integrated in X mean that we can just use that and use Compiz on top of it, without having to compile/install Xgl and running a separate X server. Or does AIGLX have some major drawbacks in comparison to Xgl? I mean it's still Compiz providing the cool effects and X server just provides the hardware acceleration.

Edit
After reading up a little bit on Xgl, AIGLX, Compiz and Metacity my point of view is that Xgl and Compiz are already dead projects. The users like it because it has all these cool things, but they only know about it because of the big publicity. With AIGLX being developed with X and integrated in it, it has more chance of long term success. Also Metacity is already a full window and composting manager and compiz started from ground up so Metacity has more change of long term success also (here ;-)

). And compiz doesn't work well with KDE (yet?) so I bet KDE is developing something seperate also (like with kompmgr).

But on the other hand, I'm just one of those users too so I have no knowledge at all of underlying technologies and stuff like that. Just pretend I'm a random ranter.

Edit2
He says it better than me: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=178

oc666 · Guru Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 330 Location: Israel

sternklang · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject:

lumax · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 10 Location: Germany

I compiled XGL and now it's running, but it doesn't like my alt key. I can use the alt key in combination with tab (for switching windows), F4 (for closing windows) and ctrl + arrow key (for switching virtual desktops), but other shortcuts don't work and I can't use the key in programs (for example for the menu in many programs or switching tabs in irssi). Any ideas how to solve this problem?