enabling compiz

[pettersolberg]

Hi,
I've installed following this: http://tr.pardus-wiki.org/NASIL:Compiz_Fusion_Kurulumu
It managed on my i810 laptop and it does "just-so-well".
During the install though, I've must have done something wrong, because it doesn't start automatically with the system. KWin is disabled, and I have to start compiz manually.
How to enable compiz to launch automatically?
Any help?
Thanks

[Kavani]

I don't think it's you petters.  I've got the same problem on my i945.  I've a question for you.  Is you driver "None" or "intel"?  Mine is "None" although intel is in my xorg.conf file.  Fresh install last night.

[Night]

Code:

  Vendor:  Intel Corporation
  Model:   82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
  Driver:   i810 (3D Support)

i cant start compiz autom. either but i dont even want to as it dont run so well 

[Kavani]

Maybe we can find the intel driver from source?    Or try recompiling compiz.

[pettersolberg]

In addition to the above problem, some icons which should appear in the system tray, beside the clock, are floating on the screen (in small windows).

Those are the "KPowersave",  "klipper" and "pisi" icons, while the Network applet and Kadu (a polish IM client) are OK.

A strange issue.

[Night]

an easy way to start compiz and other apps is to install "autostart" or was it in Tasma extras.
anyway it installs new options in Tasma like Autostart for kde.
There you just add the app you want to start on login. 

[Kavani]

I think autostart is there from the start.  My autostart problems are either not starting or freezing the computer.     Oh well. 

[Night]

Well i think that is just the Great and powerful Intel graphics card 

[Kavani]

Too funny!

[pettersolberg]

It seems that running fusion-icon does the job: it let's you change the window manager either kwin or compiz, and the changes last.

You can put this,  to have fusion-icon run automagically with every KDE start:

cd ~/.kde/Autostart
ln -s /usr/bin/fusion-icon

Cheers

[jnmbk]

I just translated above page to English. Feel free to improve it
http://en.pardus-wiki.org/HOWTO:Compiz_Fusion

[Kavani]

Thanks jnmbk!

[jaideep_jdof]

With compiz fusion when i play any movie, the audio is there but no video. I have installed compiz using the above howto and installed all the package except for unsupported plugins.

And another problem, I have two virtual desktops enabled, but with compiz it becomes 8.

[jnmbk]

With compiz fusion when i play any movie, the audio is there but no video. I have installed compiz using the above howto and installed all the package except for unsupported plugins.

And another problem, I have two virtual desktops enabled, but with compiz it becomes 8.

You need to do some tricks to have the video:
For kaffeine:
*Go to Options>xine engine parameters>video
*select xshm as driver
For MPlayer
* Right click the movie and select Tercihler>Video
* Select (Ximage/shm) here.
Now the video should work as expected.

Compiz doesn't really create 8 virtual desktops. After exitting compiz click 5th desktop and click 1st desktop again. New desktops should disappear after doing that.

[jaideep_jdof]

How do I restrict this virtual desktop creation to 4. Your trick for virtual desktops didn't work. Hey one more thing, firefox feels bit choppy.