Finally have Looking Glass working(Ive got screenies)

[carbon-12]

Wow its so cool and it uses surprisingly very little resources!

Screenies: http://super-science-monkey.deviantart.com/

[merclude]

Wow, looks nice.

Alot nicer than metisse anyway.

I setup metisse the other night, its pretty cool being able to twist windows about and stuff, but , i just dont see it being useful.

anyway, that sun desktop is free now right? was it easy to slap together?

[carbon-12]

Well according to the press release its now open source. Im not really sure about the license though(I heard MIT).

Its pretty easy to install. Heres a quick guide:

https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3dgettingstarted.html

[Uranus]

w0w, that looks so cool.... :eek: :eek:
Is it slow?
Sam

[carbon-12]

Nope, very quick actually. The CPU usage only spiked to about 20% and thats on my AMD 2200+.

[saturn-vk]

Originally posted by carbon-12
Well according to the press release its now open source. Im not really sure about the license though(I heard MIT).

Its pretty easy to install. Heres a quick guide:

https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3dgettingstarted.html

it's under gpl

[carbon-12]

Originally posted by saturn-vk
it's under gpl

Whoops, yup your right.

[cs02rm0]

Gutted.

Got it working in the window for a split second, went to try the session and it wouldn't work - now the window doesn't work either so I only saw it for a brief instance! GRR!

[carbon-12]

Originally posted by cs02rm0
Gutted.

Got it working in the window for a split second, went to try the session and it wouldn't work - now the window doesn't work either so I only saw it for a brief instance! GRR!

What distro/GPU do you have?

[cs02rm0]

Slack current... it's an Nvidia something... GF4 Ti4200 if I remember rightly.

[cs02rm0]

This is the error in /var/tmp/lgserver.log:

If I run it it just starts a process and then quits.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/jdesktop/lg3d/displayserver/socketconnector/ServerHandler (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java :537)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Secure ClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader .java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader. java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java: 194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.j ava:187)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 89)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launche r.java:274)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 35)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoade r.java:302)

[tony_t73]

I tried it out too... On Slack current with a NV GF 4 ti 4200...

I haven't checked my log, but I start up the generic "ugl" X server- gray with an X as a cursor. The mouse and keyboard give out and I had to reboot... Any ideas? Any similarities? it was only when I tried the session that it did this. The window session in a running X server worked fine!

Oh well...

[cs02rm0]

That's the same symptoms I had for the X session too Tony.

After that the window one stopped working, have you tried it since then?

[tony_t73]

Haven't gotten around to it yet- will try it out today.

What driver are you using for Nvidia? They said they only tested it with 53.36 (I think that's what it was), and I just went and got the newest one... I did notice in the installing of the driver that some things had changed- it objected to "riva" module or something...

You don't have a bunch of "error while recoding c to utf-8" errors when you start X do you?

Ok- well if I get something working, I'll be sure to tell you.

T

[cs02rm0]

I haven't noticed those errors.

The nvidia drivers I used were 6106 - I only went and grabbed the latest ones too.

I'll try the older ones later if they offer them for download still and I can be bothered!

[Rinias]

Yeah- after trying the lg3d session, the window stopped working... :confused:

How can this be set up right?

carbon-12:

Are you using Slack 10 or Slack current??

[carbon-12]

Originally posted by Rinias
Yeah- after trying the lg3d session, the window stopped working... :confused:

How can this be set up right?

carbon-12:

Are you using Slack 10 or Slack current??

Actually it was Fedora Core 2 :) . I wanted to try out seLINUX and decided to dual-boot for a few days.

I just tried Looking Glass on my Slackware partition and im having the same problems as you guys. :(

It does work OK in FC 1/2, Mandrake, SUSE, and Gentoo according to the forums I was checking out.

[Rinias]

Well that sucks!

But, i guess we have Dropline... :D

[yanik]

this is very exciting indeed.

[Rinias]

yanik :

this is very exciting indeed.

Sure is!

[cs02rm0]

It's not the nVidia driver version - the bug list (https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/issues/buglist.cgi?Submit+query=Submit+query&component=lg3d-core&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=exact&emailreporter2=1&issueidtype=include&issue_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&issue_file_loc=&issue_file_loc_type=substring&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=substring&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&order=Issue+Number) has a few examples of other people getting the same problem, see issues 41 and 54. I think they're both Debian users though.

[cs02rm0]

Ok... I think I've got round the lg3d-dev binary not working after running lg3d-session sorted. Try this:

# rm /usr/lib/java
# cp -r /usr/java/jdk1.5.0 /usr/lib/
# ln -s /usr/lib/jdk1.5.0 /usr/lib/java

Then it should work fine. This of course assumes you've installed the 1.5 development kit at /usr/java/ (which I think the tutorial said to put there, maybe? I dunno, it's where I put mine) and that I've remembered what I did correctly. I think the problem might've been that we weren't setting the JAVA_HOME variable correctly but seeing as I have no more use for 1.4.2 than 1.5 then this solves that.

After this I didn't have to hard reset after try lg3d-session, it just gives me the mouse cursor. You can press ctrl-alt-f1 and get back to the terminal where you'll probably have an error about being unable to load configuration. I figure running setup might be the key to solving this... but it errors and I couldn't figure out the error.

Hope someone finds that of use :)

[thread_killer]

Bah...I tried to give it a go last night and managed to completely screw up XFree just trying to get the Radeon driver installed!

No X server for me. :(

Then my mother-in-law shows up with my 18 year old brother-in-law's computer at my front door asking if I could fix it.

Four hours of spyware, adware, & trojan removing later, I went to bed. I'm going to try again tonight. Perhpas after I kick the brother-in-laws *** for surfing to every porn site on the web and screwing up his box so bad. :D

[uman]

Does it have a usefull purpose or is it just so you can have a nice looking desktop?

2D works ok doesn't it? So why go to all this flashy stuff to do exactly the same things?