{"id":196,"date":"2017-04-18T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.northfield.ws\/wordpress\/?p=196"},"modified":"2017-04-18T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:07:09","slug":"compiz-release-announcement-0-8-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.northfield.ws\/wordpress\/compiz-release-announcement-0-8-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Compiz Release Announcement &#8211; 0.8.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for Compiz Reloaded 0.8.14. Here is the changelog:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Whisker menu resize bug fix<br \/>\n&#8211; Improved horizontal and vertical maximizing<br \/>\n&#8211; Removed the &#8220;Number of Desktops&#8221; option<br \/>\n&#8211; Fixed crash when displaying special characters in gtk-window-decorator and emerald<br \/>\n&#8211; Set rotate and wall default flip bindings to None, which mitigates the problem where edges of screen are unclickable<br \/>\n&#8211; Fix potential for skydome silently failing to render<br \/>\n&#8211; Don&#8217;t fallback for exceeding max texture size<br \/>\n&#8211; Improved &#8211;button-layout behavior for gtk-window-decorator<br \/>\n&#8211; Updated translations<br \/>\n&#8211; Introduced window state selector in ccsm<br \/>\n&#8211; Improvements to elements, staticswitcher, static and notification plugins<br \/>\n&#8211; Added more colorfilters<br \/>\n&#8211; Added models for cubemodel plugin<br \/>\n&#8211; Added default enabled option for stars, fireflies, wizard and snow<br \/>\n&#8211; Increase maximum text size for relevant plugins<br \/>\n&#8211; Added earth plugin (built where libcurl and libglew dependencies are available)<\/p>\n<p>The packages can be found <a title=\"Compiz 0.8.14 Source Packages\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northfield.ws\/projects\/compiz\/releases\/0.8.14\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a script available to install the compiz suite. To use it:<\/p>\n<p>Step 1) &#8211; Install Xubuntu 17.04 or your debian-based Linux distribution flavor with sudo installed.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2) &#8211; Install git<\/p>\n<pre>$ sudo apt-get install git<\/pre>\n<p>Step 3) &#8211; Download the build script set. Optionally omit &#8216;-b release-0.8.14&#8217; to build latest compiz-reloaded git master<\/p>\n<pre>$ git clone git:\/\/northfield.ws\/compiz\/scripts -b release-0.8.14<\/pre>\n<p>Step 4) &#8211; Run the INSTALL script<\/p>\n<pre>$ .\/scripts\/go<\/pre>\n<p>Step 5) &#8211; Start ccsm by typing ccsm in the terminal and verify it runs<\/p>\n<pre>$ ccsm<\/pre>\n<p>Step 6) &#8211; Enable basic plugins such as Window Decoration, Move Window, Place Window, Resize Window and maybe Wobbly so you know it&#8217;s working<\/p>\n<p>Step 7) &#8211; Start compiz with<\/p>\n<pre>$ compiz --replace ccp<\/pre>\n<p>Step 8) &#8211; Start a compiz window decorator<\/p>\n<pre>$ gtk-window-decorator --replace<\/pre>\n<p>If everything is working, then congratulations! If not, you can ask in #compiz or #compiz-reloaded on chat.freenode.net or file an issue <a title=\"github.com\/compiz-reloaded\" href=\"http:\/\/www.github.com\/compiz-reloaded\" target=\"_blank\">on github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The script set includes an uninstall script used to remove everything if needed. Run .\/scripts\/uninstall to use it.<\/p>\n<p>This version of compiz and other 0.8.x versions may conflict with any 0.9.x compiz, ccsm, emerald or other compiz 0.9.x components.<\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER: Not responsible for crazed kittens, disgruntled gnomes or volcanic paint eruptions.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for Compiz Reloaded 0.8.14. 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