Compiz Fusion Tray Icon
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.
Archived Comments
frojnd
Yep, that guy would be me. Thanx for this.
Hebikai
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?
Tom
@ 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.
Hebikai
@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).
Neil
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.
Neil
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.
naynay
I installed it fine, but I dont have an Icon, just a blank space.
shrapnull
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.
bunchofmails
I copied the fusion icon from 22x22 to 16x16 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 16x16 folder..
Wim
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!
Klavkalashj
Does not work for me, I have an ATI card. Anyone with ATI who can get it to work?
Raoul Teeuwen
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…
embee
Is there a similar .deb package for Hardy?
Thanks
Tom
embee:
See this post:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/03/25/toggle-compiz-with-fusion-icon-in-ubuntu-804/
Catnap
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!!!
Derek Buranen
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.