| kurisu | hi guys is it possible to use compiz with 11.10 & gnome 3 | 19:12 |
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| kurisu | .... partly blind and need the colour filters that compiz provides | 19:12 |
| joanie | kurisu: In theory you can use it in "fallback mode." But not gnome-shell. | 19:18 |
| kurisu | hmmm | 19:21 |
| kurisu | so I have to use unity if I want to use 11.10 and compiz | 19:21 |
| joanie | or fallback mode in gnome 3 | 19:22 |
| joanie | slowly but surely they are re-adding the missing functionality (at least with respect to color filters, etc.) into gnome-shell. I'm photophobic so I need the reverse contrast and feel your pain. | 19:23 |
| kurisu | apt-get install gnome-session-fallback??? | 19:24 |
| kurisu | already did that but cannot get compiz working | 19:24 |
| joanie | kurisu: no :) | 19:24 |
| kurisu | oh | 19:24 |
| joanie | it's a system setting | 19:24 |
| * joanie looks | 19:24 | |
| kurisu | oh right | 19:24 |
| kurisu | thanks | 19:25 |
| joanie | it's under System Info | 19:25 |
| joanie | so gnome-control-center (or that 'name' menu in the right) | 19:25 |
| kurisu | I basically used reverse contrast filters for everything | 19:26 |
| joanie | system settings if you use the menu route | 19:26 |
| kurisu | ok in there | 19:26 |
| joanie | then under system info it's under graphics | 19:26 |
| joanie | log out, log back in, and compiz should work | 19:26 |
| joanie | (be launchable) | 19:26 |
| kurisu | just states "Experience: Fallback" | 19:27 |
| kurisu | no options | 19:27 |
| AlanBell | kurisu: so what is wrong with unity? is it that compiz doesn't affect it? | 19:27 |
| kurisu | I hate unity | 19:27 |
| kurisu | ... basically | 19:27 |
| kurisu | I want gnome... with compiz | 19:27 |
| AlanBell | which bit do you hate? | 19:27 |
| kurisu | ... (need compiz to be able to see _ | 19:27 |
| kurisu | everything | 19:28 |
| kurisu | its just not a very good desktop in my opinion | 19:28 |
| joanie | kurisu: yes, experience is fallback | 19:29 |
| joanie | and then log out | 19:29 |
| joanie | log back in | 19:29 |
| joanie | then launch compiz, ccsm, etc. | 19:29 |
| joanie | if you are not familiar with compiz-launching, I think it's compiz --replace but I cannot test on this system at the moment | 19:30 |
| kurisu | ok i'll try thanks | 19:30 |
| kurisu | hmm that didn't go so well | 19:32 |
| kurisu | just got loads of errors... looked like compiz had 'taken over' but none of the kb shortcuts worked and everything was unuseable | 19:33 |
| AlanBell | you might need to configure some more of the compiz plugins | 19:35 |
| kurisu | hmmm I just loaded my old compiz config | 19:35 |
| kurisu | just checked the errors: (unity-window-decorator:5315): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", | 19:35 |
| kurisu | does that mean unity is still being used? | 19:36 |
| AlanBell | I think it means that the plugins are horribly messed up if you are not using unity | 19:36 |
| kurisu | oh | 19:36 |
| AlanBell | unity is a compiz plugin, and a load of others are turned off as conflicts | 19:37 |
| AlanBell | you might need to turn off the unity plugin | 19:37 |
| kurisu | It's already off | 19:38 |
| joanie | kurisu: look for the gnome keyboard/compatibility plugin in ccsm | 19:38 |
| joanie | that gives you your shortcuts I believe | 19:38 |
| kurisu | the kb command plugin?? | 19:40 |
| kurisu | seem to have nothing set | 19:41 |
| joanie | kurisu: I'm being summmoned for dinner. But on a machine at home I got this all working.... I can try to look later if you cannot sort it out. | 19:42 |
| === joanie is now known as joanie_afk | ||
| kurisu | ok thanks | 19:46 |
| TheMuso | It would have been nice to know why he doesn't like Unity. | 21:41 |
| TheMuso | Other than he doesn't think it a very good desktop. | 21:41 |
| AlanBell | it would | 21:44 |
| AlanBell | most people who don't like unity just don't like it, without specifics | 21:45 |
| * AlanBell doesn't like the alt-tab, application switcher so I use a different window switcher | 21:46 | |
| AlanBell | the global menu I am not a fan of, but it is OK | 21:46 |
| AlanBell | window buttons on the left are fine, really don't care | 21:46 |
| * TheMuso nods. | 21:47 | |
| AlanBell | the launcher is fine on the left, but I set it to never hide, popping in and out was annoying | 21:47 |
| AlanBell | the applications lens is fundamentally badly designed, it is rubbish at showing me the applications I have and puts more effort into showing me applications from the software centre that I don't have, so I built a new lens that groups them by category like the menu used to | 21:48 |
| TheMuso | To each their own. | 21:48 |
| TheMuso | Cool. | 21:48 |
| AlanBell | http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/appmenulens.png | 21:49 |
| TheMuso | Nice. | 21:53 |
| === joanie_afk is now known as joanie | ||
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