Sorry about the late reply. I didn't realize I sent my last response to
the wrong address. Anyways, long story short. I compiled compiz-reloaded
from the gitlab repository again, and I can confirm 100% that it's
working on ecne now. The issue of the blank screen is gone, and works
even with the vulkan drivers installed. The only issue is slow
performance. I think I sort of fixed it by having the 20-intel.conf file
in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory. I believe the lower framerate is
expected for compiz 0.8, since it's been using dated C++ code for over
20 years.
Kalvin
On 2025-08-26 21:28, Luis Guzman wrote:
En 26/08/25 11:14, kanvindan escribió:
Hello everyone.
Hi Kalvin, thanks for the detailed report and for testing this on T12,
welcome to the list.
This is my first email to the Trisquel-devel list. I'm not aware of
the rules or etiquette for sending a message to the Trisquel devs
(couldn't find it on
https://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-devel), so
please excuse me.
A month ago, I tried compiling Compiz-Reloaded
(https://gitlab.com/compiz) on Trisquel 12. After many days of
painstaking work, I was able to get it functional, but it was buggy.
Also, I found it conflicts with the mesa-vulkan-drivers package: it
would give me a empty MATE desktop when activating compiz. Removing
the vulkan drivers resolves the issue. For those who may not have
heard of Compiz-Reloaded, it's just a continuation of compiz 0.8. I
strongly prefer compiz 0.8 over the official compiz packages. For now,
it's too buggy to be considered stable; it would crash occasionally.
Compiz-Reloaded works fine on Trisquel 11 aramo. A sidenote: this was
tested in a virtual machine. I have yet to try on real hardware.
There may be an interaction here: the recent Mesa update
(25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) expects mesa-vulkan-drivers present to
properly enable some EGL paths used by many GTK apps. Removing those
drivers can avoid some issues, but may break other applications. Your
observation with an empty MATE desktop when enabling Compiz suggests a
Compiz-Reloaded/GLX/EGL compatibility problem with current Mesa rather
than a Trisquel specific bug.
To help us understand it, could you share:
* exact packages/versions involved (dpkg -l | grep -E
'mesa|vulkan|compiz'),
* GPU/driver info (glxinfo -B),
* logs/messages when the empty desktop occurs (~/.xsession-errors,
journalctl -b --grep=compiz),
* a minimal reproduce (steps from a clean T12 VM), and whether bare
metal shows the same?
Is Compiz-Reloaded still feasible on Trisquel 12? And if I may ask, is
there a possibility of offering Compiz-Reloaded on the ecne
repositories in the future should it be considered feasible?
On feasibility and packaging: our team is small and, to keep
maintenance sustainable, I would prefer Compiz-Reloaded to be
maintained in Debian first (better integration and review). AFAICT the
upstream line is around 0.8.18, with Debian carrying maintenance
updates aligned to each release series[1], so "a newer major" isn't
currently available. .
I would like to hear your thoughts on this issue.
Given our focus on finishing Trisquel 12, we're not planning to add new
packages right now
That said, if you're interested in driving this, a practical path is:
* host a small repo with your code
* publish some binary builds
* invite testers here for feedback, and
* if things stabilize, consider proposing it to Debian.
Once we clear the remaining T12 tasks, we can revisit based on the
results.
Thank you.
Thanks again for the effort and for bringing this up.
Kalvin Dan
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/compiz
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