Error When Emergeing Metacity

Duck Man · Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject: Error When Emergeing Metacity

Ok so this is an off the wall crazy thing that I am doing here. I am a kde user and I want to mess around with the new metacity that came out with gnome 2.16. So I unmasked it and emerged it. Then I set KDEWM=metacity in /etc/env.d/99kde-env. It worked. But it disabled the composite stuff so I made an ebuild and enabled it. Now when I emerge I get this:

xion · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:39 pm Post subject:

Duck Man · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject:

I knew a sound thing was something wierd it would want... I added the hanno overlay and added libcm and it compiled.
(a side note: libcm needed a diff mesa from the overlay and I think it is messing up my World of Warcraft... :-P

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So no I wnet about tring to get the compsite stuff to work. I installed gconf-editor and figured out how to change themes. That got me excited

. But more on-topic, when i check the compositing_manager my desktop freezes. At this point I almost cried. I have no clue where to go from here but if you guys want to try compiling it it isn't that hard. Here is a list of things I did:
Made a copy of the 2.16 ebuild and made a 2.16-r1 ebuild in my local overlay
added the dependancy of libcm
changed the line at the bottom to enable-compsitor isntead of disable
added the hanno overlay from http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AIGLX
emerge metacity (had to add a bunch of stuff to package.unmaks and package.keywords)
Any more ideas? :-D

xion · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject:

After all my curiosity outplayed my patience so I tried everything as discribed in the AIGXL-Howto. Works perfectly with masked Gnome-2.16 packages from the main portage tree (I installed yesterday) and it looks damn great.

Since I have a Samsung X20 notebook with Intel GMA915 shared memory graphics adapter I always thought this would be overkill for my CPU and slow down the entire workflow. But no, it's quite the opposite. It became even faster than before because of the GPU-usage.

p.s. I need to use compiz while ctually metacity should be able to natively use the composite-extension if I understood the whole thing right?
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Duck Man · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject:

Ok so I just looked into things a little more after my post... I checked my glxinfo (it used to work...) and I dont have direct rendering anymore. I think the mesa I installed sux.