Installing Compiz

[sabashuali]

OK, so I installed nVidia drivers on my "new" Debian box (Thanks AT).
Now, I would like to taste the delights of Compiz

So, where shall I start? What's best?
Compile from source? Use a repo package (are there any)?

Is there more than one variation?
I noticed that Compiz-Fusion have three seperate releases simillar to Debian branches - Stable, Testing, Unstable. Do I have to use the testing one if I am running the testing version of Debian?

Any tips and/or tricks will be greatly appreciated...

Thanks, Saba

 

[Anti-Trend]

If you want to use Compiz-Fusion as a part of your normal desktop or just casually, you can install it from the Debian repos. If you want to tinker with the (potentially broken) development branch, Look into repository of shame » News There are a few changes you have to make to your xorg.conf before compiz will behave as expected though. With an NVidia card with working 3D, the following changes should suffice:

Section "Screen"
    ...
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

 

[sabashuali]

Cheers AT.

Will give it a go and if successful will post some screen shots.
By the way, I meant to ask you a while back - how did you produce/captured the YouTube Video of your 'cubed' desktop? A good friend asked me after I showed him the video....

Thanks again, Saba

 

[Anti-Trend]

There used to be a vidcap plugin for Beryl called 'seom'. Not sure if it's ever been ported to Compiz-Fusion, but it was quite good.

Edit: It seems there's a newer plugin to replace seom called simply 'screencasting'. Supposedly, it's faster than seom anyway.