Confirming that Compiz-Reloaded works on ecne

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kalvin2023
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A rejoint: 03/07/2023

Hello everyone. About 6 months ago, I've been working on getting Compiz-Reloaded to work on Trisquel 12 GNU+Linux ecne. Fast forward now, I confirm that compiling Compiz-Reloaded from the gitlab repository works without any major issues. Before, I had an issue with an empty desktop the first time I compiled it. It was related to the vulkan driver package. Uninstalling it worked. Now, it works fine with the vulkan driver installed. I tested compiz on real hardware with intel integrated graphics only. I haven't tried on nvidia or amd cards.

After emailing the devel mailing list, I've been given a suggestion to host a repository if I want to gather feedback. Thought I would confirm it works since I haven't seen any posts about it before.

The only issues I've encountered now:
1. Somewhat slow performance. I got it improved by using the 20-intel.conf file.
2. The icons for ccsm and simple-ccsm appear missing unless I place it in the /usr/local/share/icons directory.
3. Trying to close the window requires you to hover the mouse slightly away from the close button.
4. MATE-Tweak won't show the option to switch to compiz if you use a virtual machine. It works on real hardware.

Other than that, everything else works. I think this is as good as it will ever get for a project that goes back almost 20 years ago.

For those of you wondering, Compiz-Reloaded is a continuation of the original Compiz-Fusion package, which started off as a merger between Beryl and Compiz in 2006 I think. I strongly prefer compiz 0.8 to 0.9, which has more features than the current version.

Would a repository be of interest to anyone? If so, this will be my first major project, despite not being a developer.

Thanks!