That did it, thanks! While I'm at it, I'll say I had some other issues building that I'd already gotten past. I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything to screw up the permissions, but I got this: cursor.c:197: fatal error: opening dependency file .deps/cursor.pp: Permission denied
And before that, it complained about not being able to find [config.h].in, which seems like a problem where a script wasn't removing brackets around a variable when it should. (These configure scripts, autogen, aclocal, etc etc are all Greek to me.) I copied config.h.in to [config.h].in and it worked fine. I also had to install moc, which wasn't on the list of packages I'd need, and needed to symlink it from /usr/bin/ to /bin, as that's where make looked for it. Now, when I run compiz, it's totally broken. The terminal I run it from says: compiz: Unable to parse XML metadata from file "core.xml" And the X server and all the windows (some of which have disappeared or lost parts of themselves) are totally unresponsive. Any help? Let me say that I really appreciate what the open source community does. Heck, without it, I wouldn't have a job! It's the least I can do to contribute some of my time. However, it doesn't bode well for a project when it's as difficult as it's been for me to get working. I'm relatively new to Linux (1 year, and my primary PC is a Mac), but I'm a software developer, and have had problem after problem getting Compiz's source into my work machine, compiling it, running it. I know very little about the challenges of distributing a highly configurable window manager to work with all kinds of Linux flavors, metacity/kde/etc, all that. But my experience has been a real mess. David Reveman wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 19:12 -0700, Grant Patterson wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> I work at VMware, where I'm making the multi-monitor feature new in >> Workstation >> 6.0 (just released!) more robust. Long story short, window managers don't >> consistently expose a good way for a single window to go fullscreen across >> more >> than monitor, which is what we need to do to display the monitors we expose >> to a >> guest virtual machine. So we've proposed a new hint for the wm-spec that >> lets us >> do this in a clean way; anticipating its approval (or something close to >> it), >> I'm implementing the functionality in a variety of window managers, >> including >> Compiz. >> >> Anyway, I got the source via git and I'm trying to build it. I'm not having >> much >> luck. I'm running Ubuntu Dapper and have the latest version of XFixes >> according >> to apt-get, but get this error when I try make: >> cursor.o: In function `addCursor':/src/compiz/src/cursor.c:57: undefined >> reference to `XFixesHideCursor' >> >> Any idea what's going on? > > You'll need a newer version of xfixes and it's a bug that the configure > script doesn't check for this. However, that cursor code is not yet used > so I just disabled the call to XFixesHideCursor for now. If you get the > latest changes it should not be a problem anymore. configure.ac should > be adjusted to require a newer version of xfixes once we enable this > cursor code. > > - David > _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz