scripting compiz; could use some perl regexp help

[Paul Johnson]

Just installed Ubunto 8.04 on a brand new clean system and noticed one
other thing I forgot to mention.

In order to let compiz manage your backgrounds, it is necessary to
tell nautilus to stop doing so.  gconf-editor, click to apps nautilus
preferences show_desktop and unclick that.  After that, the
backgrounds specified in compiz work.

Another weirdness I notice. On this system, when I click System/
Preferences / Appearence /Desktop Effects, it has 3 buttons for none,
medium and extra effects.  On the other system, there is a 4th button
that says "customize" and it launches a small version of the compiz
configurator.  I'm guessing I must have pointed and clicked
differently, somehow.

Aha! This is the one:

# sudo apt-get install simple-ccsm

PJ


On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey, kids!
>>>>
>>>> Changing to Ubuntu has had side effects.  A version of compiz that
>>>> works with no fussing!
>>>>
>>>> Did you know that compiz is on the dbus, so you can tell it what to do
>>>> in scripts?
>>>>
>>>> Awesome.  With 1000s of backgrounds, I want the wallpaper to change on
>>>> all the sides of the cube all the time.  What fun!
>>>>
>>>> You can set images into the backgrounds array of the cube like so,
>>>> where I drop in A.jpg and B.jpg.  You can put in as many as you want.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm - I can't seem to get different images on the cube faces.  Is
>>> there another setting somewhere?  I've tried the dbus method adding
>>> images in the "advanced desktop effects" dialog to no avail.
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> I'm going to guess you're running KDE :)  Alas, I feel not like
>> downloading all of that at the moment...
>
> Gnome! (It'll be quite a while before I'm willing to gamble on KDE 4x ...)
>
> Packages I installed:
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep compiz
> ii  compiz                                     1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6
>                           OpenGL window and compositing manager
> ii  compiz-bcop                                0.7.4-0ubuntu1
>                           Compiz option code generator
> ii  compiz-core                                1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6
>                           OpenGL window and compositing manager
> ii  compiz-dev                                 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6
>                           OpenGL window and compositing manager -
> deve
> ii  compiz-fusion-plugins-extra                0.7.4-0ubuntu1
>                           Collection of extra plugins from
> OpenComposi
> ii  compiz-fusion-plugins-main                 0.7.4-0ubuntu5
>                           Collection of plugins from OpenCompositing
> f
> ii  compiz-gnome                               1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6
>                           OpenGL window and compositing manager -
> GNOM
> ii  compiz-plugins                             1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6
>                           OpenGL window and compositing manager -
> plug
> ii  compizconfig-backend-gconf                 0.7.4-0ubuntu1
>                           Settings library for plugins -
> OpenCompositi
> ii  compizconfig-settings-manager              0.7.4-0ubuntu2
>                           Compiz configuration settings manager
> ii  emerald                                    0.7.2-0ubuntu2
>                           Decorator for compiz-fusion
> ii  libcompizconfig0                           0.7.4-0ubuntu1
>                           Settings library for plugins -
> OpenCompositi
> ii  libcompizconfig0-dev                       0.7.4-0ubuntu1
>                           Development file for plugin settings -
> OpenC
> ii  libemeraldengine0                          0.7.2-0ubuntu2
>                           Decoration engines for compiz-fusion
> ii  python-compizconfig                        0.7.4-0ubuntu1
>                           Compiz configuration system bindings
>
>
> Use advanced config tool under the System/Preferences, make sure cube
> and rotate cube are enabled.   Then Look for "Desktop Cube" and you
> see an appearance option there.  You can put in many backgrounds.
>
> I have mixed experience with the "emerald" decorator, so I've not been
> running it. Just using the gtk-window-decorator that runs by default.
>
> Oh, here's one more detail.  In the General Settings configuration,
> there's a tab for "desktop size". In there, I have 8 for "horizontal
> virtual size" and 1 for the other two values.
>
> This does not include the wallpaper plugin, but it is easily build.
> Wallpaper plugin not required, but is another way to do backgrounds
> for people that don't do cube. I think Wallpaper is the only plugin I
> installed, but I don't even need to run it because cube handles
> backgrounds for me.
>
>
> Google Found good HOWTO on setting up compiz &  adding plugins to
> Ubuntu 8.04. It even has simple instructions on how to use git to grab
> the newest source on special plugins. I'm pretty sure this was it:
>
> http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=8214
>
> But that website is not answering me right now.
>
> I am sure I DID NOT remove existing packages from Ubuntu or install
> new repositories of special packages.  I did not do the procedures
> described here.
>
> http://sathyasays.com/2007/07/01/go-crazy-on-eye-candy-with-compiz-fusion/
>
>
>>
>> Chris
>>
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University of Kansas