Wallpaper plugin broken in Natty (11.04 alpha)

also the include file must be changed

That's an interesting patch - but I don't get why we have to delay
mapping the window until we get a DamageNotify, that behaviour just
seems downright bizzare to me

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Lorenzo <email address hidden> wrote:
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This affects me as well. Having used 10.10 and suffered this bug for a while (I used to switch to tty 2 then back, but recently included the wallpaper.c patch.. which mostly fixed my problems) I was looking forward to this being something that was repaired in 11.04.

It is a shame to see it still is broken. If the wallpaper plugin doesn't function at all - shouldn't it be a slightly higher priority?

Just a cosmetic feature I know.. anyway.

I put down Compiz Wallpaper as one of my top (if not the top) of my most wanted features that used to work, but no longer do. I even tried switching to GNOME/KDE/XFCE/and hybrid combinations, hoping Compiz wallpaper would start working, but Compiz wallpaper still doesn't work, at least with K/Ubuntu 10.10. Any chance of Compiz wallpaper working again for K/Ubuntu 11.04, etc...?

Any chance you guys could help me use that patch to update my wallpaper plugin?
I have build-essential and have followed the directions from Lorenzo's 10.10 thread on this post.

I have the compiz-plugins-extra-0.9.4/ folder. However when I type ./configure I get:
  bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

I can't run make in either the wallpaper or the wallpaper/src folder. I have replaced the .cpp and the .h file with the ones above me in this thread.. but now what? : D

I managed to git checkout the current wallpaper plugin - but when I replaced the .cpp and .h files with the ones above it didn't compile. I had to adjust GLTexture::readImageToTexture on line 165.. back to the original that has a second string reference.

Attached file compiles.

Despite some adjustments to the above file, I couldn't get the wallpaper plugin to function at all in natty. I managed to get the wallpaper.cpp and .h file compiled and all that - but it didn't work. I went to a 10.10 system I have and used a similar edit to the wallpaper source there, and got it working.
There is perhaps something in gnome in 11.04 and the way it draws wallpapers that causes this plugin not to function at all.
/Sadface.

I got 'Compiz Wallpaper' working in 'Ubuntu Classic Session' in 'Ubuntu 11.04 beta 2' in' Virtualbox with 4.0.4', with the desktop icons hidden, with .the 'VirtualBox 4.0.5 Guest Additions pre-release', and 'compiz-plugins-extra' (and upgrades, etc...) installed using 'Synaptic'

'Compiz --replace' would freeze the system if run from an 'Ubuntu Session', I haven't tried this yet from a KDE session. The desktop icons hidden option messes up the 'Ubuntu session' background. (pixels don't get replaced with the background when they should)

see also:
http://linuxblog.pansapiens.com/2008/11/25/hide-the-desktop-icons-in-gnome-for-a-clutter-free-ubuntu/

@Hiisukun, If I remember right, you have to do something like `mkdir build` `cd build` `cmake ..` `make` `sudo make install` in the 'plugins-extra' folder instead of just the 'wallpaper' folder.

Note: I didn't try this method out for Ubuntu 11.04.

'Compiz Wallpaper' didn't work for me in KDE for Ubuntu 11.04 beta 2. Compiz worked for the most part however.
Note: When I started Compiz, it's settings weren't kept from the GNOME session.

'Compiz Wallpaper' didn't work for me in KDE for Ubuntu 11.04 beta 2. Compiz worked for the most part however.
Note: When I started Compiz in KDE, it's settings weren't kept from the GNOME session.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu and cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.