[solved] Compiz niggle? - Nope, 3d Windows!

Okay, so we have a bit of a head-scratcher here... just kind of curious about this...
Compiz with Emerald... The cube starts out kinda huge with no windows open or maximized:
Then we open (or maximize) up a window:
Then we open (or maximize) up another window:
That's all in one compiz session, btw - look at the size of the cube. It appears to get smaller with each window that opens, or maximizes.
Nvidia 7300 GT card, I am having issues with blanking (that's in another thread though).
I do not remember Compiz doing like this? The cube's always stayed the same size for me before when I used it? Any feedback welcome. Thanks!
Last edited by dedanna1029 (2010-11-18 03:54:20)

Here, have a pretty pic from Scotland...
Edit: So is there a way to get 3d Windows working without that happening with the cube?
Last edited by dedanna1029 (2010-11-18 04:05:54)

Similar Messages

[SOLVED] compiz wont use gtk-window-decorator with xfce

for the life of me i cant get ccsm to keep "gtk-window-decorator --replace" to stick in the Command line of the Window Decoration plugin section. it keeps switching to "emerald --replace"
is it because im using xfce and not gnome? xfce uses gtk right. anyone have this issue? its not that i dont mind emerald, just on some other distros ive used i can change it no problem, most of those were using gnome though so maybe thats it
Last edited by dodgefan (2011-07-11 03:24:50)

n125 wrote:I was actually wondering how to completely install Compiz 0.9.x under Xfce earlier. I managed to successfully install and get running compiz-core-git, ccsm-git, compiz-plugins-extra-git, compiz-plugins-main-git, compizconfig-python-git, and libcompizconfig-git; all from the AUR. But when all was said and done, I was left without a window decorator. I wanted compiz-decorator-gtk, but I couldn't find it in the AUR and the one in the community repo wouldn't install due to not having compiz-core installed (I had compiz-core-git), which left me stuck going back to 0.8.8 for now.
Had you enabled 'window decoration' in CCSM??? (4 compiz 0.9.x?) On install, it is probably not enabled (along with resizing, moving windows, etc). It also won't pick up your 0.8.8 settings - so you need to set up CCSM settings from scratch.. Also, Compiz should have built gtk-window-decorator when you compiled it. (which is why i believe that you didn't have CCSM comfigured correctly with your new version of compiz).
as for the compiz packages in AUR, can't give you much advice there, as i build compiz myself, using Scott Moreau's build scripts;
git clone git://anongit.compiz.org/users/soreau/scripts
there are a few build scripts - for both 0.8.8 and 0.9.x - whichever ones end in '++' - are for building 0.9.x ... for both series, there are scripts to build all of the addons / plugins.
building it yourself, may not be your ideal approach, so i would recommend trying the AUR pkgbuilds for compiz 0.9.x , but this time have a look in CCSM, after you install the new version and make sure that you have enabled all of the important stuff like move, resize, window decoration, etc.
You also might want to read through compiz' Wiki, the trouble-shooting section covers your 'no-window-decoration' problem ~ as it is quite common.
http://wiki.compiz.org/Troubleshooting
cheerz
Last edited by triplesquarednine (2012-01-14 18:57:18)

Photoshop elements 12 editor doesn't open, organizer is fine. I uninstalled the program and re-installed it (restarted the computer each time)...didn't solve the problem. using pc, windows 8.1

photoshop elements 12 editor doesn't open, organizer is fine. I uninstalled the program and re-installed it (restarted the computer each time)...didn't solve the problem. using pc, windows 8.1
can someone help me with this issue?

Two suggestions: the first one is a workaround. You just have to drill down your program file tree to Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer and find the .exe file - the one specifically for Organizer, not Elements. Make a shortcut to that file on your desktop and it will open Organizer. The second suggestion resolved the problem altogether for me. I actually called Dell and after working with several different techs over several different days, I talked to a tech in premium support who was excellent. I discovered from them that it is actually a problem with the windows system files. I have 8.1. I went through a "refresh" on my computer which rebuilt all the files. Then reinstalled Adobe as well as my other programs again and Photoshop Elements Organizer works from the standard desktop shortcut.

[SOLVED] [Compiz] Gtk-Window-Decorator

Hi guys, after spending the better part of one of my few free days configuring various apps and so on in compiz [I made a fresh arch install]. I finally got to setting my GTK theme away from the ugly defaults. I've installed the Orta theme for now at least, I'll probably change it once a week. The GTK theme sets perfectly fine, I used the gnome-tweak-tool for that, but the decorations(title bar) do not change, they remain the same default theme that gtk-window-decorator has. I have done extensive googling and have not found a solution yet, anyone have a fix?
Last edited by Multimoon (2013-02-17 14:23:36)

The old gtk-window-decorator (I'm assuming you installed the old stable version of compiz 0.8.x from the community repo) still requires certain gconf keys to be set.
If you find setting the GTK theme (using gnome-tweak-tool) and the window decorations (using either gconf-editor or gconftool-2) independently somewhat annoying, you might want to try compiz-devel from the AUR. It's the same version of compiz used in Ubuntu 12.10 and it's stable (at least as far as I've tested, mentioning because the "-devel" suffix might make you think otherwise). The 0.9.x versions of compiz use gsettings instead of gconf, which means that both the GTK theme and the window decorations can be set/changed using gnome-tweak-tool (or dconf-editor or the gsettings utility).
Also, some themes (the Gnome Cupertino theme for example, as well as Ubuntu's light themes) use some form of padding, shadows that the vanilla metacity (from Extra) does not allow, that might also cause gtk-window-decorator to fall back to its default theme. You can actually check whether the theme will be displayed or not in advance using the "metacity-theme-viewer Name_of_theme" command.
I hope that helps, good luck!

[SOLVED] Compiz Window Decorator Not Working

Hi,
I had compiz configured from an ubuntu install. I reset the config and even reinstalled and disabled gconf, enabling all required options.
and the problem
whenever I start it, it does not have a window decorator/border and I cannot move the windows, despite setting it up properly and trying emerald and gtk window decorator and starting them manually.
what am I doing wrong
Video: http://mshenrick.dyndns.org/out.ogv (slow, be patient)
(how do I do an <a>/[a] on here?)
Last edited by mshenrick (2011-05-02 09:07:06)

try
compiz ccp --replace
ccp loads all the saved settings

(SOLVED) Compiz, GLX error even tough i start compiz with LIBGL_AWLAYS

Hi,
I have tried to read trough the wiki, google and forum. I cant get this to be solved?
I installed compis with:
# pacman -S compiz-fusion-gtk (no to emerald, emerald-themes and compiz-fusion-plugins-extra)
made sure metacity compositioning was off with gconf
then i added these:
gconftool-2 --set -t string /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager compiz
gconftool-2 --set -t string /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current /usr/bin/compiz
gconftool-2 --set -t string /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default /usr/bin/compiz
Have added these to xorg.conf
ServerLayout:
Option "AIGLX" "true"
Device:
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "DRI" "true"
Option "Accelmethod" "EXA"
added a section called "Extension" where i added:
Option "Composite" "Enable"
and a section "DRI" :
group "video"
mode 0660
If i launch compiz with :
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace --indirect-rendering
I still get the glx error! And i dont have the window borders. Read from the troubleshooting to activate the window decaritons, rezise and move, still the same.
Running Gnome with slim. And how should i launch the fusion-icon with a parameter? (ie LIBGL..) i get an error?
My specs: Dell d420, intel gma945 express
sincerely, THANKS!
#update 1: Dont know how, but it kinda works now think the problem was something with compiz-dekorator-gtk.
now my problem is, how to add it to startup?
Last edited by tiddylicious (2009-12-06 13:05:43)

Solved:
_NO_ xorg.conf. -Also synaptics driver, and im loading into the environment from inittab. These did the trick !

[SOLVED] Compiz fusion-icon won't run

Hello,
I'm new to Arch Linux and I've just installed it on my laptop. I want to run Compiz on XFCE: I tried the methods on the Arch Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … icon.22.29) on replacing XFWM with Compiz. The second method doesn't work, only the first one works, but I don't want to use that one.
I've tried the third method, but when I followed the instructions and I rebooted my computer, I've got no window manager at all: I have to manually load Compiz.
The only thing that works right now is following the third method and also do the first one at together.
But I just want to do either the second or the third method. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
Thank you in advance.
(Sorry for bad English).
Last edited by jonasty123dm (2013-02-27 18:46:56)

ewaller wrote:It is your system, so do as you will. I really do not recommend running compiz as root. Enough said.
Hi, I didn't mean running Compiz as root: I just edited this file: "/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml" to make Compiz start for all users. I followed the method without the fusion icon this time (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … icon.22.29) and everything works now.
Thank you very much for the help.
(P.S.: I don't know how to mark this thread as SOLVED).
Last edited by jonasty123dm (2013-02-27 13:06:12)

[SOLVED] Compiz standalone + dzen statusbar

I've recently started using compiz standalone.
Is there a way to prevent windows from going below the statusbar?
Edit: solved by starting dzen with the -dock option
Last edited by abiotic (2014-01-24 11:52:56)

Okay solved the problem now. Here's how I did it:
First I install compiz-alone-utils-git from AUR.
Change /etc/slim.conf line (remove dbus-launch):
login_cmd exec ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session
Change ~/.xinitrc:
exec compiz-alone-session
The remaining autostart applications put into ~/.config/compiz/autostart.sh:
# This shell script is run before Compiz launches.
# Environment variables set here are passed to the Compiz session.
# Set a background color
BG=""
if which hsetroot >/dev/null 2>&1; then
BG=hsetroot
else
if which esetroot >/dev/null 2>&1; then
BG=esetroot
else
if which xsetroot >/dev/null 2>&1; then
BG=xsetroot
fi
fi
fi
test -z $BG || $BG -solid "#202020"
# D-bus
if which dbus-launch >/dev/null 2>&1 && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi
# Run XDG autostart things. By default don't run anything desktop-specific
# See xdg-autostart --help more info
DESKTOP_ENV="COMPIZ"
if which /usr/bin/xdg-autostart >/dev/null 2>&1; then
/usr/bin/xdg-autostart $DESKTOP_ENV
fi
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd'
nvidia-settings -l
sh ~/.fehbg &
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources &
volumeicon &
xfce4-panel &
conky &
covergloobus &
(you can find the skeleton file within /etc/xdg/compiz/autostart.sh)
The relevant part is the xdg-autostart part within the autostart.sh it seems.
Commenting it out resurrects the problem.

[SOLVED] Compiz Performance with ATI x700

So this is my story:
I have an Acer Aspire Laptop with a ATI x700 Mobility graphics card. A couple of days ago I installed Arch for the first time. I installed the "xf86-video-ati" package and compiz-fusion and it worked great. Then I managed to break my system to unusability and decided to reinstall. In the meantime there was an update for xf86-video-ati (from 6.8.0-4 to 6.9.0-5) and now I have some quite annoying performance issues with compiz: maximizing/unmaximizing as well as unminimizing a window (so I assume everytime it has to load a new window into the memory) takes like 2 seconds (while working perfectly smoothly before).
I tryed the options suggested at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … nce_tuning but without success. Since I use exactly the same xorg configuration as before I can only speculate that it has to do something with the package update (maybe some option that was enabled by default before now has to be manually set?). I also tried the catalyst drivers but performance was pretty much the same.
Anyways, here are the relevant parts (so I think) of my xorg.conf file
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "drm"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "** ATI (generic) [ati]"
Driver "ati"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,AUTO"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Any ideas what I could do to bring back compiz at the speed that my graphics card already proved to be capable of are very welcome
Last edited by Baufo (2008-12-08 16:46:37)

I think I just experienced the same problem with my x800gto. It was very slow to toggle between vertical/horizontal/full maximizations. I tried changing the default acceleration method from XAA to EXA. This seems to have solved the problem, and now my wobbly windows change size with butter smoothness. The changes I made were to add
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
under the device setting. There reason you need no such option for XAA is because, to my undestanding, XAA is the default. Making this change means you should also comment out
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" #needed for aiglx
since it is now irrelevant.
Since you also use an ATI card, I will suggest configuration options that work well for me:
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "GARTSize" "64"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "True"
Option "ColorTiling" "True"
Good luck. Hope this does the trick for you.

[SOLVED] Latest update kills wobbly windows!

Ran an -Syu at work today (first time in a week) and my wobbly windows went excrutiatingly slow - though everything else in compiz worked fine.
Fixed problem through a downgrade (am using intel not ATI or Nvidia) - anyone else have the same problem?
** EDIT - solved in different thread **
Last edited by floke (2008-02-22 09:35:10)

OK. I was trying to solve a completely different problem and finally figured this out.
If I use Xrender rather than OpenGL for rendering desktop effects, this stuff doesn't work. (And I can trigger errors in .xsession-errors by making changes to the desktop effect settings and trying to apply them.)
I reset all desktop effects to default in system settings and got the effects working again.
Trouble is, I can't remember why I switched from OpenGL in the first place so I'm worried something else is about to jump at me!

How do i find locked music files to solve my -54 error for windows 8

everytime my itunes starts up, it comes up with " the ipod could not be synced, an unknown error occured (-54)", i've read that people find the locked files in their library and unlock them and it solves the problem, but i wanted to know how i find the files for a windows 8 pc?

Maybe:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090723091425AAM63Zz

[SOLVED]Error while installing a windows game(Witcher 2) in wine 1.4

I'm using arch linux 64 bit with wine 1.4.
and Was installing witcher 2 from dvd rom and the installer crashed at the very end.
The error was with ISBEW64.exe
this is the details of the error
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000007 in 64-bit code (0x00007f0f1c10d96c).
Register dump:
rip:00007f0f1c10d96c rsp:000000000023f7c0 rbp:000000000002f7f0 eflags:00010246 ( R- -- I Z- -P- )
rax:0000000000000000 rbx:0000000000000007 rcx:0000000000000007 rdx:00000000000100b0
rsi:0000000000000000 rdi:00000000000400f0 r8:00000000000100e8 r9:0000000000000000 r10:0000000000000000
r11:0000000000000029 r12:0000000000000000 r13:000000000002f730 r14:000000000003f950 r15:0000000000000000
Stack dump:
0x000000000023f7c0: 0000000000202020 0000000000000000
0x000000000023f7d0: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
0x000000000023f7e0: 2020202020202020 2020202020202020
0x000000000023f7f0: 0000000000202020 0000000000000000
0x000000000023f800: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
0x000000000023f810: 0000000000202020 0000000000000000
0x000000000023f820: 00ffffffffffffff ff00000000ff0000
0x000000000023f830: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000023f840: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000023f850: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000023f860: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000023f870: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Backtrace:
=>0 0x00007f0f1c10d96c VariantClear+0xdc() in oleaut32 (0x000000000002f7f0)
1 0x00007f0f1c0ee735 in oleaut32 (+0x3e734) (0x000000000002f7f0)
2 0x00007f0f1c0e82a5 in oleaut32 (+0x382a4) (0x0000000000000000)
3 0x000000014000139c in isbew64 (+0x139b) (0x0000000000000063)
4 0x0000000140001fb6 in isbew64 (+0x1fb5) (0x0000000000000063)
5 0x0000000140007cca in isbew64 (+0x7cc9) (0x0000000140007d18)
6 0x000000007b870aa4 in kernel32 (+0x50aa3) (0x0000000140007d18)
7 0x00007f0f1e85601b call_thread_func+0x6a() in ntdll (0x00007fff9c86c490)
8 0x00007f0f1e84f786 RtlRaiseException+0x7d() in ntdll (0x00007fff9c86c490)
9 0x00007f0f1e8216c6 in ntdll (+0x416c5) (0x00007fff9c86c490)
10 0x00007f0f1f2b1173 wine_call_on_stack+0x12() in libwine.so.1 (0x00007fff9c86c490)
11 0x00007f0f1f2b11c9 wine_switch_to_stack+0x8() in libwine.so.1 (0x00007fffffbef000)
12 0x00007f0f1e827490 LdrInitializeThunk+0x45f() in ntdll (0x00007fffffbef000)
13 0x000000007b877015 __wine_kernel_init+0x904() in kernel32 (0x00007fff9c86d320)
14 0x00007f0f1e827df4 __wine_process_init+0x273() in ntdll (0x0000000000000400)
15 0x00007f0f1f2af0f5 wine_init+0x294() in libwine.so.1 (0x0000000000000400)
16 0x000000007bf00cc1 main+0x80() in <wine-loader> (0x0000000000000003)
17 0x00007f0f1ece238d __libc_start_main+0xec() in libc.so.6 (0x0000000000000000)
18 0x000000007bf00dbd _start+0x28() in <wine-loader> (0x0000000000000000)
0x00007f0f1c10d96c VariantClear+0xdc in oleaut32: movzwl (%rbx),%eax
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (62 modules)
ELF 7b800000- 7bc41000 Dwarf kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b820000- 7bc41000 \ kernel32
ELF 7be00000- 7c103000 Dwarf <wine-loader>
PE 140000000- 14001d000 Export isbew64
ELF 7f0f18b92000- 7f0f18dcb000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 7f0f18ba0000- 7f0f18dcb000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7f0f18dcb000- 7f0f18fd2000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7f0f18fd2000- 7f0f191dc000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7f0f192d4000- 7f0f194fe000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7f0f194fe000- 7f0f19734000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7f0f19734000- 7f0f19944000 Deferred libxi.so.6
ELF 7f0f19944000- 7f0f19b47000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7f0f19b47000- 7f0f19d50000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7f0f19d50000- 7f0f19f5b000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7f0f19f5b000- 7f0f1a161000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7f0f1a161000- 7f0f1a364000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7f0f1a364000- 7f0f1a58b000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1a370000- 7f0f1a58b000 \ imm32
ELF 7f0f1a58b000- 7f0f1a791000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7f0f1a791000- 7f0f1a995000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7f0f1a995000- 7f0f1abb0000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7f0f1abb0000- 7f0f1adb5000 Deferred libuuid.so.1
ELF 7f0f1adb5000- 7f0f1afd1000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 7f0f1afd1000- 7f0f1b30d000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7f0f1b30d000- 7f0f1b520000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7f0f1b520000- 7f0f1b728000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 7f0f1b728000- 7f0f1b9ca000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1b740000- 7f0f1b9ca000 \ winex11
ELF 7f0f1b9ca000- 7f0f1bbda000 Deferred libbz2.so.1.0
ELF 7f0f1bbda000- 7f0f1bdf0000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7f0f1bdf0000- 7f0f1c08e000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7f0f1c08e000- 7f0f1c3d4000 Dwarf oleaut32<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1c0b0000- 7f0f1c3d4000 \ oleaut32
ELF 7f0f1c3d4000- 7f0f1c751000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1c400000- 7f0f1c751000 \ ole32
ELF 7f0f1c751000- 7f0f1ca50000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1c760000- 7f0f1ca50000 \ comctl32
ELF 7f0f1ca50000- 7f0f1cce0000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1ca60000- 7f0f1cce0000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7f0f1cce0000- 7f0f1d13b000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1cd00000- 7f0f1d13b000 \ shell32
ELF 7f0f1d13b000- 7f0f1d354000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1d140000- 7f0f1d354000 \ version
ELF 7f0f1d354000- 7f0f1d645000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1d370000- 7f0f1d645000 \ gdi32
ELF 7f0f1d645000- 7f0f1d9df000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1d660000- 7f0f1d9df000 \ user32
ELF 7f0f1d9df000- 7f0f1dc5e000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1d9f0000- 7f0f1dc5e000 \ advapi32
ELF 7f0f1dc5e000- 7f0f1def0000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1dc70000- 7f0f1def0000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7f0f1def0000- 7f0f1e0fd000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7f0f1e2c2000- 7f0f1e4d8000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1
ELF 7f0f1e4d8000- 7f0f1e7cc000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7f0f1e7cc000- 7f0f1eaba000 Dwarf ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7f0f1e7e0000- 7f0f1eaba000 \ ntdll
ELF 7f0f1eabd000- 7f0f1ecc1000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF 7f0f1ecc1000- 7f0f1f062000 Dwarf libc.so.6
ELF 7f0f1f063000- 7f0f1f27f000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF 7f0f1f2a7000- 7f0f1f5d9000 Dwarf libwine.so.1
ELF 7f0f1f5da000- 7f0f1f7fd000 Deferred ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
ELF 7fff9c9ff000- 7fff9ca00000 Deferred [vdso].so
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000e services.exe
0000001f 0
0000001e 0
00000015 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
00000012 winedevice.exe
0000001c 0
00000019 0
00000014 0
00000013 0
0000001a plugplay.exe
00000020 0
0000001d 0
0000001b 0
0000002c rpcss.exe
00000009 0
00000026 0
00000032 0
00000031 0
00000030 0
0000002e 0
0000002d 0
00000041 explorer.exe
00000017 0
00000043 (D) C:\users\ebs\Temp\{43B73120-0931-47A3-9D74-0EB39F7926A3}\ISBEW64.exe
00000049 0
0000003f 0
00000045 0
0000003b 0 <==
System information:
Wine build: wine-1.4
Platform: x86_64
Host system: Linux
Host version: 3.2.9-1-ARCH
How can I fix this error and play witcher 2?
Any help is highly appreciated
Last edited by ebshankar (2012-03-16 13:11:04)

Kaustic wrote:
Edit: Btw, you should have left this thread as [SOLVED] and created a new thread for the new problem. Please read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_Post
Edit2: This problem might not have anything to do with mouse sensitivity and may just be a bug in Wine or the Game, however it's worth a try to eliminate the possibility. (Wine had a similar issue with CS:S and erratic mouse movement (just jumpy) and was patched (wine 1.3.35 to 1.3.36 iirc))
Righto,
So your mouse is either "PS/2 Generic Mouse" or "OM". Whichever it is we'll only be paying attention to the id=#.
Before I start, I'll assume that you've turned off mouse acceleration, which is ideal for games. You also might have to tweak these settings to find a happy medium.
I'm also assuming that device 16 is your mouse (PS/2 Generic Mouse).
My idea is to temporarily lower the mouse sensitivity when you launch the game, and then return it to default when you close the game.
Firstly list current properties for your mouse, make note of the numbers in the parentheses. Most of the options are self explanatory.
$ xinput --list-props 16
[snip]
Device Accel Profile (252): 0 #Change this to "-1" to completely disable acceleration
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (253): 1.000000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (254): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (255): 10.000000
[snip]
Disable mouse acceleration (I have this set by default)
$ xinput --set-prop 16 "Device Accel Profile" -1
# Or, if you paid attention to the number in parentheses, you can use:
$ xinput --set-prop 16 252 -1 # less typing
To lower your mouse sensitivity, simply do
$ xinput --set-prop 16 "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 4 #The higher the slower
# Or
$ xinput --set-prop 16 253 4
Then you simply use a bit of shell script to launch your game (e.g.
# cd to dir of game's .exe | lower mouse sens | launch game | restore mouse sens to default
cd ~/.wine_rack/witcher_2/drive_c/The\ Witcher\ 2/bin; xinput --set-prop 16 253 4; WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_rack/witcher_2 WINEDEBUG=-all wine witcher2.exe; xinput --set-prop 16 253 1
This solution is a little hacky but it should work
You can probably find out more on your own from here on out, good luck with it.
(My personal solution to mouse issues was to just disable mouse acceleration, it's fine for me.)
I actually thought about creating a new thread but momentarily felt I had to write here itself because everything regarding troubleshooting witcher 2 will be here.
your solution did decrease the mouse sensitivity but, the mouse continues to be jumpy in the game while moving it from left to right or top to bottom.
Witcher 2 has a mouse emulator built in and some ppl(even windows users) have experienced this problem but for most of them, editing this file called 'user.ini' and setting smoothness = 0 worked. But not for me. Strangely many ppl playing witcher 2 in wine didn't experience this problem at all.
I think this can be a bug in witcher 2 which can make only some models of mice jumpy.
I also have an 'enter gamepad' and the game doesn't support it but one joystick works very smoothly (unlike the mouse) so presently I'm searching online for ways to get the gamepad working with the game
Last edited by ebshankar (2012-03-16 08:53:54)

[SOLVED!] KDE 4.11 - Window Manager seems not to be running?

Greetings,
I still seem unable to fix the fact that systemsettings will run. However it will run if you do kdesu systemsettings.
Doing so I started checking around in it and thought I'd look at the desktop effects, when I was greeted with this:
So, I am guessing that the window borders and buttons are a figment of my imagination....
This is after me pretty much starting over with KDE, removing the .kde and .kde4 folders.
Help?
Edit: That pic seems to not link right. Yay. Basically it says that effects can not be activated or whatever because a window manager seems not to be running. The irony of it is you can see the fact that there are window borders and buttons and such, evidence of a WM...
I wonder if there is something here that is related to me not being able to run systemsettings... yet systemsettings will run fine in any other environment - including Gnome Shell.
Another thing, KDE 4.11 ran great in testing and kde_unstable. Once it went to extra, things happened. I find that odd. Maybe something is missing on my end that most archers already have?
Edit2: fixed image link
Last edited by mythus (2013-08-25 20:49:38)

No omeringen, Nvidia user.
I can try again Thaodan since I've had some updates come through (and weeded out some dot files). Last time I tried I saw OpenGL 2 selected. Trying to change to 3 or anything else also got the screenshot in my OP.
I'll log into KDE and see if it still does the same, after a brief check for last minute updates.
EDIT: OK, so I can mark this as solved. I found an odd dot file, who's name excapes me but deals with kde sessions, just sitting around in the home folder. Once I deleted it and restarted, I found that not only System Settings finally ran again as a user, but I could also change and apply desktop effects. Peculiar. I thought that maybe it was a dot file that was causing the problem, that wasn't in the .kde or .kde4 folder. It just took finding it and removing it.
I wish I knew more to tell, but this at least solves my issue, and the issue with the non-running-as-user system settings I had posted in another thread (thinking that they were separate events. Thanks again for all your help guys!
Last edited by mythus (2013-08-25 20:49:05)

[solved] compiz-core upgrade issue: missing /usr/lib/compiz/libcore.so

After upgrading from compiz-core 0.8.8-3 to 0.8.8-4, but it's persisting even downgrading I got a segfault for the missing file.
Running
LANG=C xinit >xinit.log 2>xinit.log
with the following .xinitrc
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
setxkbmap it -option compose:rctrl -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
urxvtd -f -o
fbpanel &
gtk-redshift &
compiz --debug --replace ccp --indirect-rendering
echo "ARGH -> $?"
I got this output in xinit.log
ARGH -> 139
rver 1.13.0
Release Date: 2012-09-05
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.6.0-1-ARCH x86_64.
Current Operating System: Linux archmini 3.6.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 12 23:58:58 CEST 2012#
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=7342087f-b1bb-4133-8b50-d25ff902fcab#
Build Date: 05 October 2012 01:57:18PM
Current version of pixman: 0.26.2
>...Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>...to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>...(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>...(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Oct 15 22:20:21 2012
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
Initializing built-in extension XTEST
Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
Initializing built-in extension SYNC
Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
Initializing built-in extension RENDER
Initializing built-in extension RANDR
Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
Initializing built-in extension RECORD
Initializing built-in extension DPMS
Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
Initializing built-in extension XVideo
Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
Initializing built-in extension DRI2
Loading extension GLX
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
rxvt-unicode daemon listening on /home/milky/.urxvt/urxvtd-archmini.
compiz (core) - Debug: Could not stat() file /home/milky/.compiz/plugins/libcore.so : No such file#
compiz (core) - Debug: Could not stat() file /usr/lib/compiz/libcore.so : No such file or directory
/home/milky/.xinitrc: line 19: 858 Segmentation fault compiz --debug --replace ccp --indire#
xinit: connection to X server lost
^M
waiting for X server to shut down urxvt: X connection to ':0' broken, unable to recover, exiting.
Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
Relevant pacman.log:
[2012-10-15 21:30] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-10-15 21:30] synchronizing package lists
[2012-10-15 21:30] starting full system upgrade
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded acpid (2.0.17-1 -> 2.0.17-3)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded cabal-install (1.16.0-1 -> 1.16.0-2)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded chromium (22.0.1229.92-1 -> 22.0.1229.94-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded libglapi (8.0.4-3 -> 9.0-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded libgl (8.0.4-3 -> 9.0-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] installed glu (9.0.0-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded compiz-core (0.8.8-3 -> 0.8.8-4)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded curl (7.27.0-1 -> 7.28.0-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded dnsutils (9.9.1.P3-1 -> 9.9.2-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded erlang (R15B01-1 -> R15B01-2)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded firefox (15.0.1-1 -> 16.0.1-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded firefox-i18n-it (15.0.1-1 -> 16.0.1-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded freeglut (2.8.0-1 -> 2.8.0-2)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded gegl (0.2.0-3 -> 0.2.0-4)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded git (1.7.12.2-1 -> 1.7.12.3-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded gnutls (3.1.2-1 -> 3.1.3-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded gparted (0.13.1-1 -> 0.14.0-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded hwids (20120922-1 -> 20121012-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded intel-dri (8.0.4-3 -> 9.0-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded jasper (1.900.1-7 -> 1.900.1-8)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded khrplatform-devel (8.0.4-3 -> 9.0-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded pam (1.1.5-4 -> 1.1.6-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded util-linux (2.22-7 -> 2.22.1-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded systemd (194-1 -> 194-3)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded libgbm (8.0.4-3 -> 9.0-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded libegl (8.0.4-3 -> 9.0-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded libldap (2.4.32-1 -> 2.4.33-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-10-15 21:40] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2012-10-15 21:40] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-10-15 21:40] ==> Starting build: 3.6.2-1-ARCH
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [pata]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [scsi]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2012-10-15 21:40] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-10-15 21:40] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-10-15 21:40] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-10-15 21:40] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-10-15 21:40] ==> Starting build: 3.6.2-1-ARCH
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [pata]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [scsi]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-10-15 21:40] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2012-10-15 21:40] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-10-15 21:40] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2012-10-15 21:40] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded linux (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.2-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded linux-headers (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.2-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded lirc-utils (1:0.9.0-30 -> 1:0.9.0-31)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded mesa (8.0.4-3 -> 9.0-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded mtdev (1.1.2-1 -> 1.1.3-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded nodejs (0.8.11-1 -> 0.8.12-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded subversion (1.7.6-1 -> 1.7.7-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded sysvinit-tools (2.88-8 -> 2.88-9)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (194-1 -> 194-3)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded thunderbird (15.0.1-1 -> 16.0.1-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded tmux (1.6-2 -> 1.7-1)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded wpa_supplicant (1.0-1 -> 1.0-2)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.7.3-1 -> 2.7.3-2)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded xf86-video-intel (2.20.9-1 -> 2.20.9-2)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.12.4-1 -> 1.13.0-2)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded xorg-server (1.12.4-1 -> 1.13.0-2)
[2012-10-15 21:40] upgraded youtube-dl (2012.09.27-1 -> 2012.10.09-1)
Anyone can help me tracing in which package the missing file is located (if it's not in compiz-core)?
Last edited by dexgeh (2012-10-16 17:58:39)

I managed to solve the issue commenting the --indirect-rendering flag and installing and launching driconf to create a default ~/.drirc file.
I just noticed that in the same upgrade I got intel-dri from 8.x to 9.x version, maybe it's related.
Launching a terminal in .xinitrc and manually launching
LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose compiz --debug --replace ccp
show me a lot of errors, but it's working, and I don't need anymore the --indirect-rendering flag (in the past I put that flag in the command because of the bad performance that compiz had without).

[SOLVED] help needed with active window script

I am trying to receive the current window from a script. it works fine, but when no window is open i get an error.
i am using this command:
xprop -id $(xprop -root 32x '\t$0' _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | cut -f 2) _NET_WM_NAME | cut -d '=' -f 2 | cut -b 1-2 --complement | rev | cut -c 2- | rev
error message is "Invalid Window id format: 0x0"
I tried working around this by using this script:
#!/bin/bash
title_window () {
xprop -id $(xprop -root 32x '\t$0' _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | cut -f 2) _NET_WM_NAME | cut -d '=' -f 2 | cut -b 1-2 --complement | rev | cut -c 2- | rev
title_root () {
title_window | grep 0x0
if [[ -z title_root ]]
then
title_window
else
echo "Desktop"
fi
But now it shows "Desktop" for every window.
Last edited by Rasi (2013-01-22 11:59:46)

solved.
solution:
#!/bin/bash
title_window () {
xprop -id $(xprop -root 32x '\t$0' _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | cut -f 2) _NET_WM_NAME | cut -d '=' -f 2 | cut -b 1-2 --complement | rev | cut -c 2- | rev 2>&1
title_root () {
title_window |& grep -q 0x0
if title_root;
then
echo "Desktop"
else
title_window
fi

[solved] Compiz niggle? - Nope, 3d Windows!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for