compiz manager

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 11:54 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 17:12 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 00:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 17:15 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> > > >> Originated in Mandriva and picked up OpenSUSE.
> > > >> http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/09/24/suse-101-new-compiz-manager-themes/
> > > >>
> > > >> Would be nice to have this in Fedora Extras.
> > > > 
> > > > Note that compiz-manager requires cgwd (compiz generic window decorator,
> > > > iirc), which in turn requires the compiz-quinn (now known as beryl)
> > > > compiz fork, which replaces the compiz we've got in FC6.
> > > 
> > > I believe it can be installed in parallel which is under review at 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192434
> > 
> > I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Both provide some of the same
> > binaries, libs, include files, etc.
> 
> Okay, with the renamed beryl fork, I think you actually can have them
> installed in parallel, as all the bits are renamed, including header
> files, libraries, etc.

You can and I do.

> > /me goes off to find a sacrificial box to try this all out on...
> 
> Oy. It go boom. In different ways on 3 different systems. This was a
> 9/20 snap though, might have better luck with beryl 0.1.0...

For gits and shiggles, I built packages for all the beryl/emerald
components. You can grab the srpms and spec files here, if you're
inclined to play:

http://wilsonet.com/packages/beryl/

I'll take it up with the person who submitted the compiz-quinn package
review request to figure out where to go from here to get beryl and
friends into Extras...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com

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