I recently started using compiz-fusion. After spending months looking at an anemic little rectangular on-screen volume control when I use the volume buttons on my ubuntu thinkpad T60p, all of a sudden I noticed that I was getting a nice, big, robust rounded-corner display (somewhat mac-like). Now it's gone again. I really have no clue whether this came from compiz-fusion, emerald, a plugin, or something else entirely. I've been unable to find any likely options in the ccsm. I was using prebuilt compiz-fusion packages from amaranths repo for a while, and just switched to one I built from git-head. I don't know if that accounts for the disappearance. Maybe this is just a hidden gnome setting. Does anybody know? Thanks, -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com The Astoria Seminar ==> http://www.astoriaseminar.com
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 09:58 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:> I recently started using compiz-fusion. After spending months looking > at an anemic little rectangular on-screen volume control when I use > the volume buttons on my ubuntu thinkpad T60p, all of a sudden I > noticed that I was getting a nice, big, robust rounded-corner display > (somewhat mac-like). Now it's gone again. > > I really have no clue whether this came from compiz-fusion, emerald, a > plugin, or something else entirely. I've been unable to find any > likely options in the ccsm. I was using prebuilt compiz-fusion > packages from amaranths repo for a while, and just switched to one I > built from git-head. I don't know if that accounts for the > disappearance. > > Maybe this is just a hidden gnome setting. Does anybody know?It sure is a gnome thingie, it detects if it's in a composited environment and draws a transparent and rounded volume OSD, what I can't tell you is why it's not appearing anymore.> > Thanks, >Diogo
On 8/30/07, David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:> > I recently started using compiz-fusion. After spending months looking > at an anemic little rectangular on-screen volume control when I use > the volume buttons on my ubuntu thinkpad T60p, all of a sudden I > noticed that I was getting a nice, big, robust rounded-corner display > (somewhat mac-like). Now it's gone again. > > I really have no clue whether this came from compiz-fusion, emerald, a > plugin, or something else entirely. I've been unable to find any > likely options in the ccsm. I was using prebuilt compiz-fusion > packages from amaranths repo for a while, and just switched to one I > built from git-head. I don't know if that accounts for the > disappearance. > > Maybe this is just a hidden gnome setting. Does anybody know? >This is gnome-settings-daemon. In the version of GNOME you're using it only does the composited check when it starts so you either have to start compiz before gnome-settings-daemon or kill gnome-settings-daemon after starting compiz (it'll restart on it's own). -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com