Hello, Friends!
I know what it’s like to have your favorite repo abandoned by the maintainer. It’s rough. If ya’ll rely on compiz-easy-patch, then power to ya!
I am honoured to be mentioned by SimpleTechGuy, but to be totally honest, I didn’t even realize a package called compiz-easy-patch existed.
After every major system update, ever since the Manjaro team deprecated older nvidia drivers, I’ve had to compile my drivers from scratch against an older LTS Linux kernel 5.4. Sometimes (not always) the system update breaks compiz-reloaded. So before I reboot, I’ve gotten in the practice of just building compiz from AUR using this command:
$ pamac build compiz-gtk compiz-bcop libcompizconfig compizconfig-python ccsm compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-experimental emerald emerald-themes fusion-icon emerald-gtk3
I wish I knew how to script so I could automate the process described above because right now system updates (including to get compiz working) requires more manual intervention on my part than there really should be. Ah well. #FWP I guess.
My question for @SimpleTechGuy is this: How did you know that I run compiz? I am glad you tagged me it’s just a mystery to me how you knew how much I use (and love) this window manager.
My question for the rest of you now is this: Is compiz-easy-patch really that much easier than just building compiz by invoking that pamac command I shared above?