FYI: I can confirm. Ubuntu compiz assumes local X -> you have to hack it to make it working. Regarding the dual head - for that you need XINERAMA extension. It is well known that compiz can not (yet) be run with Xinerama in action. HTH.
Ondrej Jason Maas wrote: > Hi David, > > Well, I'm not going to be able to provide you with much help because I'm > basically writing to say that "it can be done" but not with much info. :/ > > I did get Compiz running on an Ubuntu 8.04 setup with an ATI Radeon 9550 > card using the radeon driver. And the performance was quite good (Pentium > 4 Dell desktop with 512MB RAM as the terminal)! However it was > uninteresting to me because that driver or card only seems to support a > max resolution of 2048 in either direction for 3D and I have a dual > 1600x1200 monitor setup for a grand total resolution of 3200x1200. I'd > rather have the pixels than the eye candy. :) > > I did have to hack on the /usr/bin/compiz wrapper to get Compiz to start > and it still whined when it started, but I promise that it did work. Some > of the things I remember having to do were basically to turn off the > section about checking for whether the X driver is whitelisted, because it > assumes that the X log is on the local system. I think maybe the xdpyinfo > command that checks for the Composite extension also didn't work and I > needed to turn off that section. > > HTH, > Jason > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
