I thought that by now there would be a ton of threads like this one around already, but as requested by mstlyevil here and several others like sha_man here, I decided to post my own version of a script to automize the installation of Xgl and Compiz on Ubuntu.
Attached to this post therefore is an improved version of what I sent to mstlyevil for Automatix, which I believe will work on both ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards using Ubuntu 6.06.
Please do understand that I do not have an NVIDIA graphics card, and therefore had to somewhat "guess" what the standard situation (of /etc/X11/xorg.conf) looks like and what it should look like after installation. It should work perfectly on ATI graphics cards and I think it'll work on NVIDIA graphics cards as well, but I couldn't find someone to quickly test it.
In short, this script installs the flgrx driver for your ATI graphics card or the nvidia driver for your NVIDIA graphics card, then installs Xgl and Compiz in a seperate X session, installs Gset-Compiz and then changes some bad default settings.
Therefore, to run Xgl and Compiz you must select the "Xgl"-X session in the GNOME Display Manager (the loginscreen).
Packages installed are those from QuinnStorm; Gset-Compiz gives the user a nice interface to change many Compiz settings.
Run this script by entering the following in a terminal after downloading it:
Again, I have not thoroughly tested this yet, and so far there has been no NVIDIA graphics card user willing to sacrifice enough time to confirm whether this script works.Code:cd Desktop tar -xf Ra211.tar.bz2 sudo sh Ra211.sh
Should this script work fine and enough people are interested, a future version might add compatibility for Kubuntu and Intel graphics cards.
To see whether you graphics card from ATI or NVIDIA will work, see this page. Again, my script installs the fglrx driver (noted there as "ati-drivers-8.25.18") for ATI graphics cards, no support for other (open source) drivers yet.
Please be so kind to report your results.
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