How to compile and install compiz-fusion from git on Fedora 7

Let's move on to the installation procedure. If you have any beryl and emerald packages installed remove them first.

sudo yum remove beryl* emerald*

compiz-fusion 0.6 needs libx11 with xcb support. Therefore you have to install the following packages from the developement Fedora 8 repository.

sudo yum --enablerepo=development install libxcb xcb-proto libxcb-devel
sudo yum --enablerepo=development update libX11

Now you must have some packages installed. Open a terminal and type:

sudo yum install git-core libtool python Pyrex

Next create a directory in your home and change to it like this:

mkdir ~/compiz
cd ~/compiz

Now it's time to clone compiz from the git repository:

git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/compiz
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/libraries/bcop
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/compizconfig/ccsm
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/compizconfig/libcompizconfig
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/compizconfig/compizconfig-python
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/plugins-main
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/plugins-extra
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/plugins-unsupported
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/decorators/emerald
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/decorators/emerald-themes
git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/users/crdlb/fusion-icon

Next we must compile all the packages. Be carefull if you are using only gnome in the following commands you should use --disable-kde and if you are using only kde --disable-gnome --disable-metacity. If you want both kde and gnome support just don't disable anything. I will type the commands with gnome and metacity disabled, but you choose.

cd ~/compiz/compiz
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install

When the compile of compiz finishes type:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig

After that you must compile bcop, libcompizconfig, compizconfig-python, and plugins-main, in that order.

cd ~/compiz/bcop
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install
cd ~/compiz/libcompizconfig
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install
cd ~/compiz/compizconfig-python
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install
cd ~/compiz/plugins-main
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install

Next we move on to the other packages:

cd ~/compiz/plugins-extra
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install
cd ~/compiz/plugins-unsupported
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install
cd ~/compiz/emerald
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install
cd ~/compiz/emerald-themes
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install

ccsm and fusion-icon need a little different procedure:

cd ~/compiz/ccsm
make && sudo make install
cd ~/compiz/fusion-icon
make && sudo make install

You also have to make some links in order fusion-icon and ccsm to work properly.

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/compizconfig* /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/ /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/

For nVidia cards you should add the following line in your xorg.conf in the Screen Section.

Option		"AddARGBGLXVisuals"	"true"

So open xorg.conf and paste the labove line.

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Save (ctrl+o) and exit (ctrl+x).

At last you are ready to run compiz-fusion! You can either type:

fusion-icon &

or you can launch it from the start menu as 'Compiz Fusion Icon'.

At any time you can update any package to the latest version. You check for newer versions here. For example if you want to update emerald type:

cd ~/compiz/emerald
git pull
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install

**Note: Super key

If you use KDE and Super key (the button with the windows flag on it) isn't recongnized you must edit your xorg.conf to make it work.

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and add this line in the InputDevice Section

Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:super_win"

Restart X by hiting ctrl+alt+backspace and try again the super key.

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