Updated -- Due to popular demand I've released updated packages from Compiz Fusion 0.7.2.  They are lightly tested but you can get them at http://www.tuxyturvy.com/files/compiz-fusion if you want to give them a spin.  The SRPMS are almost complete ripoffs from a German Linux distribution called CCux that I know practically nothing about but that had SRPMS that seemed to be in pretty good shape.  Other than a few tweaks to revert to Python 2.4, disable KDE4 support and reenable KDE3, and a few dependency issues because of minor differences in package names, they compiled fairly easily.  They loaded on my laptop and it seemed to work.

There is at least one known issue that I noticed, the category icons in the CompizConfig manager don't seem to show up.  This looks like a code problem and not a package problem but it's only a cosmetic issue in the Config tool and not really a big deal so I didn't spend a lot of time on it.

I also had to pull in another few packages from Fedora, mainly xcb support.  The packages here are basically straight rebuilds of the Fedora 8 versions of those packages.

Now I could have installed a recent community distro like Fedora or Ubuntu where Compiz Fusion packages seem to be readily available -- I've used Fedora in the past and have given Ubuntu a spin -- but find myself getting frustrated with the high rate of updates and the occasional breakage that they introduce.  I've been quite happy with my slow moving, but very stable CentOS 5 distro.  It has all the applications I need and is rock solid on my hardware (a Dell D820 laptop).  If I decide I hate Compiz Fusion I wanted it to be as easy as possible to remove it completely and revert to my previous setup.

At first I just downloaded the Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 tarball and tried to compile and install it in /usr/local.  This actually seemed OK at first but after install I couldn't get the Compiz Config Tool to run.  I eventually fixed that with some symbolic links but it just felt like a sloppy install and I didn't like it.

I noticed that the Compiz Fusion Wiki had links to Fedora 7 RPM's from KageSenshi's Compiz Fusion repository so I decided to try rebuilding those.  To do that I also had to update a few core packages which I brought in from Fedora 7 (metacity 2.18 and newer versions of autoconf and automake probably only required to build from source) and pull a couple of packages from Fedora Core 6 (dbus-qt and fuse-libs).

After those upgrades it was pretty easy to compile most of the Fedora 7 RPMS for CentOS 5.  The exception was the compiz-plugins-main and compiz-plugins-extra packages.  Those packages are failing to compile with the same errors as documented here.  If someone knows how to fix this I'd love to hear about it.  For now I'm just using the binary packages directly from the Fedora 7 packages as they seem to work OK.

I found a solution to the compile failures for the compiz-plugin RPMS.  I was getting errors similar to the following:




This appears to be a bug in the libxslt code.  I rebuilt the libxml2 and libxslt packages from Fedora 7 and upgraded them on my CentOS 5 system.  After that the compiz-plugin source RPMS compiled without issue.  You won't need these upgraded packages to run Compiz Fusion, but if you want to rebuild from source I've provided them in the buildtool-updates directory.

Installing the RPMS was easy and after the install I simply selected System Tools...Compiz Fusion Icon which gave me a nice icon in my taskbar where I can enable and disable Compiz and Emerald, as well as access their settings.  So far this package has run very stable on my system although I did have to select the "Indirect Rendering" option to work around the well known Nvidia bug which causes some windows to be solid black.  The plugins all seem to function as expected and I'm starting to see that there really are actual benefits to Compiz.  I've found the Scale, Expose, and Zoom features to be especially useful.

If you want to try Compiz Fusion on your CentOS 5 (or RHEL5) system you can download my binary RPMS (SRPMS are there as well if you want to rebuild yourself).  These RPMS are completely unsupported.  Feel free to drop me a note if they work for you, or if they don't, but I can't promise I can help as I have limited time.  If they completely break your system then you should know how to put it back together.  The fuse-libs RPMS are directly from Fedora Core 6 Extras.  Many thanks to KageSenshi for providing good source packages for FC7 that were easy to rebuild.  To install you can either just install all of the RPMS or be more selective by following the instructions on KageSenshi's website.

If you decide to uninstall you can run the following command:



Because the metacity package in this directory will replace the stock metacity package from CentOS5/RHEL5 if you want to revert completely to stock packages you'll need for force a downgrade back to the metacity 2.16 release.  The easiest thing to do is to simply run the following commands:



This basically forces a uninstall of metacity and then downloads and installs the distro version of metacity.

Good Luck!!

这 看起来是libxslt代码的错误。我重新编译了从Fedora 7抓来的libxml2和libxslt包，然后在我的CentOS系统上升级。这样compiz-plugin源RPM包就无错编译成功。运行 Compiz Fusion你并不需要升级这些包，但是如果你想从源包重新编译，我把它们放在buildtool-updates文件夹下，可以去那找到它们。

安装RPM包真是太容易了，安装完成后简单的选择 应用程序...系统工具...Compiz Fusion Icon，马上在任务栏出现一个美丽的图标，点击它可以打开和关闭Compiz、Emerald，同样也可以设置。到现在为止这些包在我的系统上工作得很稳定，虽然我不得不选上“Indirect Rendering”这个选项，以防著名的Nvidia bug把一些窗口变成一垞黑。插件如预期那样起作用了，我开始注意到，Compiz还真正地有一些实际用处。我发现Scale、Expose和Zoom尤其有用。

如果你想在你的CentOS 5 (或 RHEL5)系统上尝试Compiz Fusion，你可以下载我的二进制RPM包（SRPM包也在那，如果你想自己重新编译）。这些RPM包完全没有支持。如果它在你那也正常运行，不要客气给我发个信；或者它没有正常工作，我不能保证我能帮助你，因为牛仔很忙。如果它完全破坏了你的系统，你应该知道怎么把这些包完全卸载。fuse-libs RPM包是直接从FC6 Extras仓库拿来的。多多感谢KageSenshi提供质量优良的FC7源包，它们非常容易重新编译。安装时你既可以只安装我提供的所有RPM包，也可以更有选择的按照KageSenshi网站上的说明去做。
如果你决定卸载Compiz Fusion，运行如下命令：
因为这里的metacity包会覆盖CentOS5/RHEL5里原始的metacity包，如果你想完全回复以前的包，你需要强制降级回metacity 2.16。要做到这件事最简单的方法是运行以下命令：
这样它会强制卸载metacity，然后下载并安装metacity的发行版原始包。
祝你好运!!