cant activate compiz

[Fernando Miguel]

using both Apperance menu and compiz --replace fails on my system (jaunty 64bits with nvidia card)

$ apt-cache policy compiz Installed: 1:0.7.9+git20090211-0ubuntu6
$ apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-180 Installed: 180.35-0ubuntu1
$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg Installed: 1:7.4~5ubuntu13

$ compiz --replace
$ Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0428 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1280x800) to maximum 3D texture size (8192): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
gnome seesion, adding gnomecompat to active plugins
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Could not acquire compositing manager selection on screen 0 display ":0.0"
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
$ Window manager warning: "<Alt>Prt_Sc" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "run_command_window_screenshot"

 affects ubuntu/compiz
 status new

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

It seems likely that this is a dupe of bug 178953. Do you have Metacity's compositor enabled?

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

It seems likely this is a dupe of bug 178953. Do you have Metacity's compositing manager enabled?

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

> Do you have Metacity's compositor enabled?

Yes