Compiz + Fusion On Centos 5.3 with nvidia graphic card

Here is a some sort of tutorial or show off of the compiz + fusion
screen .. to view this blog.

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Tools used are :

1. CentOS 5.3
2. Compiz + Fusion Icon
3. Mac4Linux
4. x11vnc
5. vnc2swf
6. pyvnc2swf

of course my laptop Dell D630 Latitude + with the pink mouse.. hahahahaa

For those in need for reference, this is my xorg.conf..

[namran@nb-namran ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Dec 13 19:09:35 PST 2007

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"

    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
                Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Synaptics"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
    Option         "LeftEdge" "120"
    Option         "RightEdge" "830"
    Option         "TopEdge" "120"
    Option         "BottomEdge" "650"
    Option         "FingerLow" "14"
    Option         "FingerHigh" "15"
    Option         "MaxTapMove" "110"
    Option         "VertScrollDelta" "20"
    Option         "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
    Option         "MinSpeed" "0.3"
    Option         "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    ModelName      "LCD Panel 1440x900"
    HorizSync       31.5 - 100.0
    VertRefresh     59.0 - 75.0
    Option         "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection

                ##

                  ## NVidia
  
        Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
        Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
EndSection


###

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

So that can have 3D cube like this…

3D-cube-scaled

compiz-3d-cube-scaled
p/s : after few years fiddling with compiz only recently managed to get it up correctly.

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2 Responses

  1. namran says:

    this would then make this app as ..

    the best yahoo messenger for centos

    .. after pidgin.. hehehe 😎

    as it had supersede the pidgin capabilities to perform
    some additional task which is not available in pidgin..

    may be you had been using other messenger..
    kindly post your comment in the form below ..

    p/s : don’t shoot the messenger..

    Reply
  2. arlie_bcx says:

    I did the steps above but got this message while installing:

    warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6

    GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL’

    I’m using CentOS 5.6

    Reply

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