Le 06/03/2024 à 16:59, James Bielefeldt a écrit :
I am using testing. I create Debian spins that are rolling release based on testing. it's the same package in standard testing and unstable to my knowledge.
Unstable recently got 2:0.8.18-5.1 -- yet as Steve said, it should not affect anything.
they all have the same version number. The package is also seriously outdated. Compiz is at 9.14 but the package is 8 point something.
Well, yes and no. Compiz is a complicated beast, and version 0.9 is a C++ rewrite by Ubuntu, that is now basically unmaintained. Compiz 0.8, also known as "compiz reloaded", is the pre-Ubuntu rewrite and has been continued separately.
Effectively nowadays it's 2 different (yet similar) software, and 0.9 is mostly discontinued, and 0.8 is maintained albeit not seeing muhc activity lately.
I tried to build it from the Ubuntu sources, but they errored out and arebeyond me. My main thing is themeing and polishing the desktop. I do have a live build script if you want it. Just not sure how I'd get it to you.
I don't think I'd have the time to dive this deep, and it would help immensely if you could try and gather some more information as to why Compiz is having issues.
Logs from the kernel, X and the Xfce sessions are likely the most interesting bits where you might find more information to pinpoint the issue.
Failing that, one interesting thing you could possibly attempt is to see whether an image with the exact same set of packages work fine if you don't *run* Compiz. Basically build the Compiz image, and simply adjust the configuration not to run it (but use e.g. xfwm4). You could also try and play with the Compiz plugins and configuration to see if one in particular is at fault, or if it's the core itself.
Regards, Colomban