A bad marriage

[minthaka]

I think the fusion of the Beryl and Compiz was the worst move in the last few years. It simply does not work. I've tried it both on Ubuntu and Mandriva, but the results were miserable. The interface for settings is not understandable at all, the old good effects from Mandriva 2007 (fire effects etc.) works not at all. Do you have other experiences?

[SkittleLinux18]

I think the fusion of the Beryl and Compiz was the worst move in the last few years. It simply does not work. I've tried it both on Ubuntu and Mandriva, but the results were miserable. The interface for settings is not understandable at all, the old good effects from Mandriva 2007 (fire effects etc.) works not at all. Do you have other experiences?

I believe you were the one helping me out with this very same problem back in December on Mandriva. Compiz-Fusion caused my OpenGL to break and crumble. I lost my viewports, windows borders, and 3d desktop. Remember? Was not fun!!!!

Anyway, I know it's works well in Sabayon. Which is odd because I would never trust 3D Desktops in any Debian-Based distro.

[questio verum]

I would give it some more time before making a final call. It's not really a marriage, but more like a reconciliation, since beryl was originally a part of compiz to start with. Like all reconciliations, there will be some in-house screaming and crying before all the bumps are smoothed out. There's probably some duplication and territorial pissing being sorted out as well. I know the 'beryl faction' were pretty passionate in their beliefs about the direction development should take. (before the project splintered) That's a good thing. Passion will take you places that pure technical savvy alone won't. Now that they're back together we could see some real magic.

[wowbag1]

Thats all well and good but people try to use it!
I had a similar duff experience, there I was saying to the wife that she should move to Linux because it has all these pretty things now (better than XP) and then it will not work or if it can be made to work it is not obvious how to.
Are they not testing it properly or is it the hardware we are trying to run it on, or what?

[SkittleLinux18]

I believe you were the one helping me out with this very same problem back in December on Mandriva. Compiz-Fusion caused my OpenGL to break and crumble. I lost my viewports, windows borders, and 3d desktop. Remember? Was not fun!!!!

Anyway, I know it's works well in Sabayon. Which is odd because I would never trust 3D Desktops in any Debian-Based distro.

You know, I got to thinking, Compiz-Fusion works great in PCLOS 2008 MiniMe. I haven't had a single problem with it.

[wowbag1]

You know, I got to thinking, Compiz-Fusion works great in PCLOS 2008 MiniMe. I haven't had a single problem with it.

Now this is useful to know, If we know what it works on we can avoid the problems (obviously), Thanks for that.
Anybody else have a good experience with this?

[SkittleLinux18]

Now this is useful to know, If we know what it works on we can avoid the problems (obviously), Thanks for that.
Anybody else have a good experience with this?

Yeah? Well listen to this: this is on the exact same system that Mandriva was on when C-F crashed it. Interesting!!

[wowbag1]

I wonder Why? I do not know how C- F works where it takes its info from, but your right very interesting working on the same hardware just diff. distro. Of what is PCLOS a derivative? If it is.

[wowbag1]

Just found this out - so I am none the wiser!

PCLinuxOS was originally based on another distribution under the name of Mandriva and shares many features of Mandriva such as the Control Center and the Draklive Installer. Texstar and team would like to thank the developers, contributors and others associated with Mandriva who may have indirectly contributed to the PCLinuxOS distribution.

In addition to Mandriva, PCLinuxOS would also like to thank the developers of the Gentoo, OpenSuSE, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu as we also use patches and bugs fixes from those distributions.

[elija]

PCLOS is based on Mandriva.

Anyhoo, I have used Compiz Fusion successfully in the Ubuntu
variants, but only with an NVidia card. It failed miserably on my
lappy with the Intel graphics.

PCLOS is happily running it, though it did put funky blue dots over
my video playback until I increased the color depth from 16 to 24
bit.