Compiz on MATE using marco

Hi,
I'm having problems with setting up compiz on my box. I've tried to do it according to the wiki. But when I try to install compiz-decorator-gtk, it pulls metacity as a dependency. I don't really want to use metacity, and the effects don't work for me when I do. I tried to link marco executable as the metacity, and it worked, but there were no effects. Effects work only when cairo borders are on. What needs to be done? Is it possible?

samuelm wrote:Hi,
I'm having problems with setting up compiz on my box. I've tried to do it according to the wiki. But when I try to install compiz-decorator-gtk, it pulls metacity as a dependency. I don't really want to use metacity, and the effects don't work for me when I do. I tried to link marco executable as the metacity, and it worked, but there were no effects. Effects work only when cairo borders are on. What needs to be done? Is it possible?
Here is the solution:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p … 7&t=114613
but we must wait for PKGBUILDs in AUR or packages in MATE repository.:(
I use compiz with emerald yet.

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Well yes, they may be a tad more user friendly but I have a similar philosophy with system building as playing games; Always play on the hardest difficulty.
Chazza wrote:Why are you talking about gtk themes? They are not relevant. They are for desktop applications, they are not for window managers. When you are talking about a window manager theme you are talking about what the window border looks like and nothing else besides. What you need to understand about Compiz is that it is a window manager that does not come with its own decorator (the decorator being the progam that provides windows with borders.) As such, there are three decorators that can be used with Compiz: compiz-decorator-gtk, kde-window-decorator and emerald. The first is dependent on Metacity and uses Metacity themes. It is what is installed with the compiz-dev and compiz-bzr packages (I assume you installed Compiz with one of these packages as you said you were using the 0.9 version.) The second is dependent on Kwin and uses Kwin themes. The third is not dependent on any window manager and has its own themes. Why is there a setup like this? Because it was expected that you would use Compiz with either GNOME or KDE so it made sense to have decorators that could use the themes already available for the desktop environment's native window manager.
Ah, a keen observation there! But if you would've paid attention I was also talking about compiz themes, you see the compiz theme I use also comes with a matching GTK theme, the GTK theme looks silly without the compiz theme and the compiz theme looks silly with other gtk themes. (that I have tried).
Further I am aware that compiz uses three different decorators (based on choice), my theme has an emerald theme and a metacity theme included, I can pick either (isn't it nice?) and indeed I am using the compiz-dev package.
Chazza wrote:Compiz is not a window decorator, it is a window manager, just like Metacity or Kwin or Xfwm or Mutter or Openbox etc etc. As I said above, the difference is that Metacity, Xfwm, Kwin etc all come with their own native window decorators. Compiz does not. Compiz has some decorators that can utilise the themes of aformentioned window managers.
ah yes, I started rambling towards the end it seems, I didn't mean window decorator I meant compositor, sorry about that.

Using - Partition By in SQL report

Our users are having problem with the below formula on Reports. I am not sure what this means. Our Users told that they need
(Tons Used/spread miles) * 2000 lb/ton = lbs/spread mile for their report.
And I see the below formula being used by our developer. Not sure how to read it though. Can any one let me know the formula used in the below code could actually represent the above formula. Users are complainting as below
from user ->column doubles or triples the amount if there are multiple records for the same truck/driver/beat/with the same amount for Dry Mat used and Spread Miles. If spread miles or the Dry Mat used is different if calculates correctly.
Edited by: Lucy Discover on Mar 28, 2011 1:50 PM

Hi,
Lucy Discover wrote:
Our users are having problem with the below formula on Reports. I am not sure what this means. Our Users told that they need
(Tons Used/spread miles) * 2000 lb/ton = lbs/spread mile for their report.
And I see the below formula being used by our developer. Not sure how to read it though. Can any one let me know the formula used in the below code could actually represent the above formula. Users are complainting as below
from user ->column doubles or triples the amount if there are multiple records for the same truck/driver/beat/with the same amount for Dry Mat used and Spread Miles. If spread miles or the Dry Mat used is different if calculates correctly.
SUM (ROUND ((NVL (sim_trip.dry_mat_used, 0)) /
nullif(sim_trip.spread_miles_total,0) * 2000, 2 ))
OVER (PARTITION BY sim_trip.trip_no,   sim_trip.dry_mat_code,        sim_trip.liquid_mat_code,
sim_trip.dry_mat_used,      sim_trip.liq_mat_used,         sim_trip.spread_miles_total
Yes, the code is basically implementing that formula. There's some code that hadles NULLs and rounds the amounts.
This is the analytic SUM function; the keyword OVER right after the argument indicates that. The difference (here) between the two forms is that the analytic SUM will work without a GROUP BY clause; you can show details about individual rows and the groupd total on the same output row, without doing a sub-query and a join. The analytic PARTITION BY clause correspdons to the aggregate GEOUP BY clause. Since you are saying:
...   OVER ( PARTITION BY sim_trip.trip_no
                ,                 sim_trip.dry_mat_code
          ,                sim_trip.liquid_mat_code
          ,             sim_trip.dry_mat_used
          ,              sim_trip.liq_mat_used
          ,                 sim_trip.spread_miles_total
             )the ratio on any given row will only include rows with the same values of all 6 variables. It's very suspicious that two of those varibales (dry_mat_used and spread_miles_total) are also in the argument. That's legal, but it's very unusual.
Also, this is a sum or ratios, no a ratio of sums. That is, suppose, in some group, there are 2 rows. One row has 100 tons and 4 miles, while the other row has 100 tons and 1 mile. The formula you posted would repoert that as
(100 / 4) + ( 100 / 1) =
(25) + (100) =
125
and not
(100 + 100) / (4 + 1) =
(200) / (5) =
40
As you can see, there's a big difference. I don't know which one you want.
Whenever you have a problem, post a little sample data (CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements, relevant columns only) from all tables.
Also post the results you want from that data, and an explanation of how you get those results from that data, with specific examples.
Always say which version of Oracle you're using.

Compiz fails to refresh screen [Solved]

Hi archers,
After some months without internet, I did a system upgrade and now my compiz standalone setup is stuffed up, in a funny way:
Mouse and keyboard works.
Conky is functional for a second or two, and then apparently freezes.
No windows are displayed, including the ones I launch via .xinitrc. Curiously, conky is configured to have its own window, but is displayed. My cursor changes appropriately when it is over windows, for example becomes the resize cursor or the text cursor under urxvt. When I kill fusion-icon (via hotkey), all windows are displayed.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log and dmesg | tail display no error messages. startx display no error message, except that when I launch ccsm via .xinitrc, it warns about assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed. I have both gtk2 and gtk3 installed, but I'm not sure if that's relevant?
I have tried launching compiz via .xinitrc, using 4 different commands:
exec ck-launch-session fusion-icon
dbus-launch "fusion-icon"
exec "fusion-icon"
compiz --no-libgl-fallback --replace ccp
I'm using the nvidia proprietary driver. The xorg file is
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 260.19.21 ([email protected]) Thu Nov 4 20:57:05 PDT 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
#InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Option "Name" "MLK USB Multi-Smart Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "evBits" "+1 -2"
Option "keyBits" "~272-287"
Option "relBits" "~0 -2 ~6 ~8"
Option "Pass" "3"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-MLK_USB_Multi-Smart_Mouse-event-mouse"
#Option "Protocol" "auto"
#Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
#Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
#Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "LG Electronics L194WT"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "1"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
I've tried changing xorg.conf, but the result didn't change.
I checked that fluxbox works under this setup, so it's probably some problem with compositing. I've done some searching, but didn't find similar cases. What's wrong? Thanks in advance.
EDIT:
Problem finally solved after more than a month. Unsurprisingly, by a system upgrade.
Last edited by dumas (2011-12-05 13:24:52)

Did another system update to nvidia-285.05.09-1, the problem persists.
Still no error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and dmesg|tail.
I tried changing xorg.conf, or deleted xorg.conf, since I heard it is not needed, no apparent improvement.
I thing I noticed from the Xorg.0.log is that the dri and dri2 modules were loaded, although wiki said dri should not be. I tried removing dri and then dri2 by moving them to another directory, and the log file says the module(s) are not loaded, but still no improvement.
One curious thing is if I kill compiz without killing fusion-icon, I can actually regain control of the terminals, and work with them, including opening firefox, for example. However, no window management works, for example Alt+Tab and scale. Commands such as emerald --replace or compiz --replace ccp hides the terminals (probably because of their transparency) and then freezes the screen, giving the original situation. Ctrl+C shows and regains control to the terminal.
I did another browse through recent posts, and found other nvidia problems, although I'm not sure if any is similar to mine. I just set up a dual monitor setup in my office with nvidia+twinview, and that works perfectly, so I know at least one nvidia setup with compiz works.
Any thoughts?

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