Ubuntu Gutsy Upgrade - Part 2 - Fixing Compiz
After Upgrading to Gutsy
After the Upgrade, to Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 I found the following things wrong, broken or just missing.
Things I have fixed already.
- Emerald Theme Manager Removed
- Avant Window Navigator Was Removed
- Compiz-Fusion Setting Manager Does Not Work with KDE
- KDE-Core was missing??
Things left for me to Fix.
- Fonts are Out of Whack, They Appear very Bold and Large
- More stuff I havent checked for yet
Ok those were the Main things I noticed missing from my Upgrade to Gutsy, Compiz worked but I could not add/change it’s settings, AWN was removed due my repository list, Emerald was changed and needed to be removed and KDE-Core I Don’t know why/where it went but I reinstalled it. So far I have fixed some of this stuff, and will update this post later when i fix the rest. Here is the Steps I Took to Solve my Problems.
Replacing Emerald
Well to Replace Emerald-Theme Manager I just did a Simple
sudo apt-get install emerald
And that seemed to work, I just had to reselect the theme I used before and everything was back to normal.
ReInstalling AWN
As I Like the AWN Mac OSX Looking Dock-Bar for my Task bar, I needed it apparently, when I upgraded I lost the repository for it so I found we just needed
to upgrade our sources.list with the following and get the new Key
Add Below to /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list OR use Gedit if you like the GUI gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following to the above File
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator
Now to add the GPC Key to verify this repository Enter the following in your Terminal
wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/reacocard.asc sudo apt-key add reacocard.asc rm reacocard.asc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr
Ok and now you have AWN Back in place and working good.
KDE-Core is Missing?
Since I installed originally a Ubuntu Desktop with GNOME, then later changed/added KDE as my Window Manager, after this upgrade it appears my KDE packages are gone. Anyway, I just did this to get them back. not sure where they went
sudo apt-get install kde-core
Removed Abunch of Software
Through Synaptic I Removed abunch of “Local:Obsolete” Applications that were installed before, such as Compiz, Compiz-Fusion Plugins, KiboDocker, Kooldock, mostly stuff I don’t use but I figured removing Compiz and reinstalling might help in making it work properly.
Please Note : I Removed these Completely with Config Files
Fixing Compiz-Fusion Manager
Well apparently, after compiling afew different programs from sources, and having a older install of compiz-fusion before the upgrade. My Compiz-Fusion-Setting-Manager
would exit with strange error methods. After much looking into the matter, I found the problem was in fact older library’s or packages where still in place and being used.
Take a Look in your /usr/local/lib path for them
cd /usr/local/lib ls
Personally I created a backup directory and moved all these files into it for later sorting but do this
mkdir temp mv *.* temp mv * temp mv .* temp ldconfig
Afterwards You may have to reboot or restart X server ( Control-Alt-Delete ) and you should be able to run the Compiz-Fusion-Settings-Manager now
if you can’t find it in the menu, then press Alt-F2 and type ‘ccsm’ and it will open.
So that fixed my Compiz-Control-Center and we can now login and play with our settings.
Please Note : If you are running Beryl you must Exit it before Compiz-Fuzion will work properly.
Remove Beryl from Startup
Well now since I still had Beryl installed on my Desktop before the upgrade, apparently I had to stop Beryl and Restart Compiz-Fusion to make it work.
If you don’t kill Beryl from running your Fusion effects will not work properly.
sudo killall beryl compiz --replace
Add Compiz To Startup Programs
Now that Compiz-Fusion is working perfectly I want it to start automaticly so I added a quick line to make it happen, enter the following code into Terminal
echo "compiz --replace" > ~/.kde/Autostart/startcompiz.sh chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/startcompiz.sh
NOTE : This is for KDE users only.
The Compiz Management Icon
Without Beryl I missed my Management Icon, so I found one for Compiz already in a deb package at this forum post.
After installing the above Icon, add the following to your startup commands so it start’s up automaticly.
echo "fusion-icon" > ~/.kde/Autostart/startcompiz-icon.sh chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/startcompiz-icon.sh
Now your compiz effects will be working just as you had set them. I personally just un-installed Beyl, through synaptic to get rid of it.
‘If I need to give a Startup Command for this Just make a comment and I will add it
Firefox Font Fix
Well After abit of googling to no avail to figure out why my fonts didn’t look the same as they do in Feisty, I Did find this post on the Ubuntu Forums, which gives a good quick Firefox tip to
Help the Problem in Firefox Atleast.
Basicly, open Firefox, in the Address Bar Copy Paste the Following Line
about:config
Then in the next line, Copy/Paste this line and Search for it then Change the Following Information
layout.css.dpi
Change this value from -1 to 0 and Restart Firefox.
