Am Tue, 2 Dec 2008 21:11:54 +0200 schrieb "Antti Seppälä" a.seppala+vdr@gmail.com:
2008/12/2 Gerald Dachs vdr@dachsweb.de:
After reading your mail I have tried yesterday again to use xcompmgr instead of compiz for the hud osd without success. The osd doesn't show up. I think my configuration can't be that wrong, as the hud osd is shown with compiz. Any hints what I have to look for?
Do you start the xcompmgr with the -n switch?
Yes
Does it start correctly?
I didn't find errors in logs, but I wasn't very careful searching. I could see the process running all the time.
If I start xcompmgr without client side compositing then I'm unable to get hud to work properly.
Not sure what you mean.
Which window manager you are using together with xcompmgr? Try to make sure that you have the Ubuntu desktop effects disabled as they will probably interfere with the operation of xcompmgr.
I don't use a windows manager, as I explained already my xinitrc is nearly empty. There is no Ubuntu desktop installed, no gdm, nothing. It sounds as if xcompmgr is no drop in replacement for compiz, I need a windows manager too? And this together will need less resources than compiz without anything else? I have only three X11 applications running: vdr-sxfe, graphtft-fe and xbmc/mms. They are all running fullscreen, I don't need a windows manager. This is why I want to get rid of compiz.
Gerald