compiz-reloaded-overlay
Info
As ethus3h no longer maintains this repository, I have decided to try doing it myself.
This overlay provides ebuilds for Compiz-Reloaded. The instructions below document how to add and use this overlay with Portage. (If you prefer to use the overlay differently than below, feel free.)
Upgrade note, 18 April 2020: Version 0.8.16 to 0.8.18
When upgrading from version 0.8.16 to 0.8.18, if both compiz-plugins-extra and compiz-plugins-experimental are installed, it's necessary to upgrade compiz-plugins-experimental first of the two, because the workspacenames plugin was moved from -experimental to -extra. Otherwise, the files for that plugin would conflict because both packages would try to install them.
How to add the overlay
Adding using Layman
To add this overlay to Portage using layman, run layman -o https://github.com/CerisWhite/compiz-reloaded-overlay/raw/master/compiz-reloaded.xml -f -a compiz-reloaded. To update the repository, run layman -s compiz-reloaded (or layman -S to update all the installed overlays managed by Layman).
Adding using repos.conf
To add this overlay to Portage in repos.conf, here is example configuration for it:
[compiz-reloaded]
priority = 50
location = /var/lib/layman/compiz-reloaded
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/CerisWhite/compiz-reloaded-overlay.git
auto-sync = yes
clone-depth = 0
See the Gentoo wiki page at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/repos.conf for how to use this. If auto-sync is set to yes, as it is in this example, the repository should be automatically updated when you update your system.
Adding using eselect-repository (not tested)
To add this overlay to Portage using eselect-repository, run eselect repository add compiz-reloaded git https://github.com/CerisWhite/compiz-reloaded-overlay.git. The repository should be automatically updated when you update your system.
Installation of packages
Version and live ebuilds
You can use "version" ebuilds, which correspond to the released versions of compiz-reloaded, or "live" ebuilds, which pull in the latest commits from the compiz-reloaded git repository at build time.
If you use the version ebuilds, they will need to accept the Portage keywords for either ~amd64 or ~x86 depending on the architecture; other architectures aren't given keywords in these ebuilds right now.
If you use the live ebuilds, keywords will need to be ignored (**) as live ebuilds declare no keywords.
To see how to do this, see the Gentoo wiki pages at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.accept_keywords.
Available packages
These packages are provided by this overlay, with both version and live ebuilds available for each. Once the overlay is installed and keywords have been set, these can be emerged as with any other Gentoo package.
- dev-python/compizconfig-python
- x11-apps/compiz-manager
- x11-apps/fusion-icon
- x11-libs/compiz-bcop
- x11-libs/libcompizconfig
- x11-misc/ccsm
- x11-misc/compiz-debug-utils
- x11-misc/simple-ccsm
- x11-plugins/compicc
- x11-plugins/compiz-extra-snowflake-textures
- x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-community
- x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-experimental
- x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-extra
- x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-main
- x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-meta
- x11-themes/emerald-themes
- x11-wm/compiz
- x11-wm/compiz-meta
- x11-wm/emerald
Updating packages
Version ebuilds will be updated automatically in the usual manner of installed packages.
Live ebuilds will not be automatically updated when updating your installed packages, but can be updated by running smart-live-rebuild (if that command is not available, it can be installed by running emerge app-portage/smart-live-rebuild).
Important Note
librsvg does not ship the requested "librsvg-features.h" that compiz-meta relies on. It is now named "rsvg-features.h", omitting the "lib". To correct this, I have made a simple script to create the necessary symlinks. emerge librsvg before continuing!
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CerisWhite/compiz-reloaded-overlay/master/fix-rsvg-includes.sh | sudo bash
or if you've installed through layman
sudo bash /var/lib/layman/compiz-reloaded/fix-rsvg-includes.sh