Looking for a more up-to-date solution for Ubuntu 7.10? See Toggle Desktop Effects with Compiz-Switch.
An excellent feature of Beryl was the tray icon that allowed users to easily switch window managers and decorators. A similar icon for Compiz Fusion is now available but is not included in most repositories. A deb package of fusion-icon for Ubuntu Feisty can be downloaded from here. I have been using it since I installed Compiz Fusion and it works great. I use it to turn off Compiz when I want to play a game and start Compiz when I log in.
Once you install the package you can start fusion-icon from Applications>System Tools>Compiz Fusion Icon.
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This is awesome. There was a guy on irc asking me about a .deb package today. Thanks for the link, I’m using the icon now. Can’t believe how much I missed a tray icon since beryl.
Yep, that guy would be me. Thanx for this.
[...] tom Danke [...]
I tried to install compiz fusion but it doesn’t work. Is it just a newer version of Beryl? With Beryl I have the cube, wobbly windows, fire effects, etc. What do I get by switching to Fusion?
@ Hebikai
Compiz Fusion is the result of Beryl and Compiz re-merging. With Fusion you get the latest effects, including desktop wall, expo, widget layer, new animations, reflection, and the shift switcher.
@Tom
Thanks. I was a little baffled ‘coz none of the descriptions for Fusion said that Beryl would be uninstalled and in fact it’s still there. I left it on ‘cuz it still works (still have to tinker with Fusion).
Running it from the system tools menu doesn’t work for me, “fusion-icon” from a terminal gives:
* Using the GTK Interface
* No module named pygtk
… Trying another interface
* Using the Qt4 Interface
* No module named PyQt4
… Trying another interface
* Using the Qt3 Interface
* No module named qt
… Trying another interface
* Error: All interfaces failed, aborting!
Any ideas? I have compiz-fusion working fine and a working pygtk library (2.0) on Feisty.
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Solved my problem. My pygtk library seems to run only under python2.5, whereas the #!/usr/bin/env python in the fusion-icon python scripts points to a lower version. So I grabbed the fusion-icon source from git, edited the files in src/ to start with the line “#!/usr/bin/env python2.5″ and installed from source. Hope that helps someone.
I installed it fine, but I dont have an Icon, just a blank space.
I didn’t have an icon at first either, but resizing my top bar to > 26 pixels did the trick. By default I prefer a very small menu bar though.
I copied the fusion icon from 22×22 to 16×16 and now I see it in my system tray. Some themes set the icon size to 16 and the .deb package fails to install in the 16×16 folder..
Hello.
Just to tell you I am using the icon too
It was one of the best things in Beryl
Thank you!
Oh and yes just the icon needs to a little bit smaller!
[...] an incompatable application, or even to watch video on some Intel chipsets. Previously I used the fusion-icon tray icon, which was not updated for newer versions of Ubuntu and Compiz. Until today I used the [...]
Does not work for me, I have an ATI card. Anyone with ATI who can get it to work?
Just installed Compiz on my Acer 4001 WLMi laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 … found this post > tried it > did not show up > searched some more and found you have to make you task bar 2 pixels or so higher … If only these kind of peculearities (i’m Dutch, trying a difficult English word without dictionary ;-)) weren’t there…
Is there a similar .deb package for Hardy?
Thanks
embee:
See this post:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/03/25/toggle-compiz-with-fusion-icon-in-ubuntu-804/
Hey – i installed the file but it doesnt work when i click on it thru system tools… i am using dapper… compiz is installed on my system but i need a place where i can adjust the settings…
“fusion-icon” in terminal gives me this…
* Using the GTK Interface
* No module named compizconfig
… Trying another interface
* Using the Qt4 Interface
* No module named PyQt4
… Trying another interface
* Using the Qt3 Interface
* No module named ctypes
… Trying another interface
* Error: All interfaces failed, aborting!
Help!!!