Compiz on Solaris goodness

Tuesday, Aug 14. 2007  –  Category: OpenSolaris

Wobbly windows wock my world.

Okay, so it’s a little bit forced alliteration. Whatever. I’ve been happy with Compiz running on Solaris on my desktop for a while… it’s been quite nice with the NVidia card & dual-head

This weekend I installed build 70 on my Sony VAIO TX laptop and with the help of Erwann, I was able to get it up and running on my lappie with its built-in Intel i945GMS. The fan is definitely running more now, but the graphics eye-candy is pretty amazing.

Like I said. Wobbly windows. I’m easily amused.

Update: Here is my xorg.conf that should contain the necessary lines to get it up and running. This is from my Sony VAIO TX.

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  1. nacho Says:
    August 15th, 2007 at 09:06

    can you please write a little how too? i have the same intel card and compiz’ zoom is great for the visualy challenged people, plus it is actually really cool

  2. Stephen Lau Says:
    August 15th, 2007 at 09:22

    Grab the Compiz Solaris installer script from Erwann’s blog:

    http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/compiz050packages

    edit the script and extract just the packages (you won’t be be able to run it directly since it checks for the NVidia stuff). once you have the packages extracted, install them.

    make a copy of /usr/bin/run-compiz and change the line that says “compiz –replace gconf &” to look like:

    LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=TRUE compiz –replace gconf &

  3. Geoff Kransdorf Says:
    September 13th, 2007 at 20:04

    Hi,

    I have the latest Compiz fusion 0.5.2 from Erwann running under b72 with an Intel 915. It works mostly great, but it doesn’t seem to recognize the – key bingings (i.e. to get the cube). I can change cube faces with Viewport (the mousewheel) or the gnome pager, but I can’t get the full cube visual. Any ideas?

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