On Friday, December 6, 2013 09:09:06 joem wrote:

> The one OS image here has options that work to login under

> these different window managers (click on the round logo to the right of

> the password box) xubuntu, lubuntu, ubuntu gnome classic and openbox:

so xfce, lxde, gnome2 and openbox. cool.

> The normal Ubuntu unity desktop is also an option,

> but gives a blank desktop because composting

> is not working.

Hm. We have compositing working:

https://plus.google.com/+Makeplaylivepage/posts/KBjnZRzKxxE

https://plus.google.com/113935986078304377737/posts/JDuRvYXumwu

Note that it *does* require that the compositor (usually in the WM) supports

openGL ES (as opposed to the straight openGL API found on desktop level GPUs).

However, I was under the impression that this was the case for both Unity and

GNOME Shell.

You also have to do the fun dance of running the openGL test app below once to get openGL ES actually running. we’ll be investigating what it is doing to make that happen, but i already have my hunches.

https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-mali/blob/master/test/test.c

> I sorely wish to have compiz and desktop cube

> working

you mean like this?

http://notmart.org/Photos/improv/P1020019.MOV

that’s kwin with the desktop cube. Marco is switching between desktops and as he does so you can see the cube rotate. as with the compiz cube, you can also go into “cube mode” and move it around with the mouse, etc. but this video shows it is working and that the performance is even not so bad.

(the video is 43MB download, raw from the video camera, but good enough to demonstrate how well it works)

>, but util Allwinner release all the information

> for the graphics controllers libv and others have to do

> everything by guesswork.

indeed; but we can and have made progress.

> the ubuntu gnome classic will be replaced with something

> that sounds similar (I forget the exact name), but it is

> not the same as gnome classic. It also gives blank desktop

> (though the other window managers remain usable).

sounds like either gnome-desktop-fallback or GNOME Legacy, both of which are

GNOME Shell with a gnome-2-ish configuration. as such they require compositing

and as such they will also fail without 3D.

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Aaron J. Seigo