.Markku Reunanen.

Revisiting the compositor script

October 29th, 2020

After some recent updates it seems my old compositor toggle script may not work on all setups – for example two of mine. Marco doesn’t react to the compositor setting change or even the graphical Window Settings preference. Need to do things a bit more complicated way then:

#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
on)
	gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general compositing-manager true
	gsettings set com.linuxmint.desktop mate-window-manager marco-composite
	marco --replace &
	nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceCompositionPipeline=On }"
	;;
off)
	gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general compositing-manager false
	gsettings set com.linuxmint.desktop mate-window-manager marco
	marco --replace &
	nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceCompositionPipeline=Off }"
	;;
esac

Again, call it something like compositor.sh, copy it to /usr/local/bin and chmod a+x compositor.sh as root. The parameters on and off will toggle the compositing.

As a sidenote, the compositor started getting stuck in several situations on my main machine: turning the screen off and on would make the GUI get stuck, and likewise for display sleep. Updating to a newer driver version (455.23.04) seems to have remedied the situation.

Filed under: linux,softat