Ultimate Edition 1.7x64 and Emerald prob (solved)

[Zero Prime]

Here's something odd. When trying to use Emerald I loose all window decorations. Metacity works just fine, but I want Emerald. Emerald worked just fine with 1.6, and 1.7 32 bit edition. Any ideas?

Edit: When trying to run emerald --replace in terminal I get an error saying Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[DaddyX3]

You might want to do some more digging around in this forum ZeroPrime, This is discussed elsewhere. Just a side note: If you want emerald you will need to install it with

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sudo apt-get install emerald

but this does not end your problems, so do some more digging in here. drama posted about it also.

[TheeMahn]

No he did have a problem and I just discovered why... a missing deb on the eyecandy repo (it has been updated should have no more probs as far as compiz fusion)

open synaptec reload your list do a search for emerald and a new deb should be there libengine-emerald, I also added the emerald themes package

Heres a bonus tip for you how to get fusion icon working in 64 bit (they don't make a deb that I can find):

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sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential
mkdir fusion-icon
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/users/crdlb/fusion-icon
cd fusion-icon
make
sudo make install


Verify all plugins for "fusion are installed..

Sorry for the error on my end fellas...

TheeMahn

[Zero Prime]

Sweet on both accounts. Now Emerald works! I was going to ask about the Fusion Icon later. I love that little thing.

As always, you are TheeMahn!

[TheeMahn]

Sweet on both accounts. Now Emerald works! I was going to ask about the Fusion Icon later. I love that little thing.

As always, you are TheeMahn!

My pleasure, thanks for bringing it to my attention...

[drama]

Heres a bonus tip for you how to get fusion icon working in 64 bit (they don't make a deb that I can find):
TheeMahn

i found this

http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/de ... /unstable/

there is a amd64 deb ( fusion-icon_0.1.1+git20080216.shame-1_amd64.deb)

now these are compiled for debian lenny and we all know that not all debian packages are compatable with ubuntu and visa versa but its possible that deb might work.

idk just an idea. not that its hard to compile from source. jus thought i would post my find.

i cant verify it since ive NVR gotten fusion-icon to work on my Ultimate Edition (32bit) box. strangly enough though works just fine in debian (x64). that alone has me puzzled.

cheers

-drama

[TheeMahn]

Heres a bonus tip for you how to get fusion icon working in 64 bit (they don't make a deb that I can find):
TheeMahn

i found this

http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/de ... /unstable/

there is a amd64 deb ( fusion-icon_0.1.1+git20080216.shame-1_amd64.deb)

now these are compiled for debian lenny and we all know that not all debian packages are compatable with ubuntu and visa versa but its possible that deb might work.

idk just an idea. not that its hard to compile from source. jus thought i would post my find.

i cant verify it since ive NVR gotten fusion-icon to work on my Ultimate Edition (32bit) box. strangly enough though works just fine in debian (x64). that alone has me puzzled.

cheers

-drama

Can someone verify this works I can't install it because I built the one I installed, I even tried purging it... If it does work it will be hosted through the repo.

Good find btw...

[Zero Prime]

Thanks again. Forgot to mark it as solved though, thanks for that. The Fusion Icon turned out to be the only way I could get Emerald to run at start up. I even entered emerald --replace in the sessions startup. As long as everything works then I'm happy, and now I'm very happy. The Fusion Icon comes in very handy for switching Compiz on and off for games. Jedi Academy runs flawlessly on my system without Compiz.

[TheeMahn]

Thanks again. Forgot to mark it as solved though, thanks for that. The Fusion Icon turned out to be the only way I could get Emerald to run at start up. I even entered emerald --replace in the sessions startup. As long as everything works then I'm happy, and now I'm very happy. The Fusion Icon comes in very handy for switching Compiz on and off for games. Jedi Academy runs flawlessly on my system without Compiz.

Ultimate Edition 1.8 build in progress, I am going to "Attempt" to integrate raid support...

I will also attempt to make fusion perfect of the rip with no need for upgrade icon...

[drama]

i kno you marked it as solved and have found a work around. thought id add what ive found out though.

as you said emerald --replace in sessions doesnt work.

i found out emerald --replace in ccsm doesnt work.

choosing emerald from fusion-icon works apparently (i couldnt try this one as i cant get fusion-icon to work period on my Ultimate Edition box but i im sure it does work....im glad fusion-icon works fer somebody)

the big thing here though and i have no clue why they did it. the file /usr/bin/compiz is now missing the relevent parts for emerald. it used to say something to the effect of "start emerald if present". now its gone so emerald no longer auto starts. i found a solution though.

in /usr/bin/compiz you will see a section that looks like this

decorator""
decorator args""

if you put emerald between the "" for decorator and --replace between the "" for decorator args. emerald should not autostart when compiz does once again (like it used to). i know this is a little irrelevent since you already found a solution but i thought you still may be interested. now im not saying this will fix it for everyone but it did for me.

its beyond me why the removed the emerald section and instead replaced it with

decorator""
decorator args""

but neglected to put anything in there. i think they couldve left it exactly like it was. also for some crazy reason they removed the driver whitelist and pcid blacklist.

as far as ive found though the only 2 workarounds that work is editing the file /urs/bin/compiz as i stated above or using fusion-icon as you stated. the command section in ccsm under the decorator plugin seems to do nothing at all.

well anywayz thas muh 2 cents.

cheers

-drama