I have a Debian (squeeze) guest on virtualbox on a Windows 8 host. I have given it 128 MB video memory (the max allowed by vb) and 3 GB RAM. I am trying to run Compiz on it, but every time I switch to Compiz from GNOME my mouse, icons, top bar, and lower bar all go away, and I am left with a blank desktop. I have installed everything for GNOME-based compiz, followed the Debian wiki's guide to installing it, and edited all the necessary files for it to work. I tried enabling window decorations, which was supposed to fix the windows, but that didn't work. What am I doing wrong? I have 1200 MB video memory, and I have enabled 3D acceleration (vb doesn't allow 2D acceleration on non-windows guests), but are Intel integrated graphics just too crappy to run Compiz, or will it not run on virtual machine based Debian?
Debian shows only a blank desktop when using compiz
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I am also running VirtualBox in windows 8 with debian squeeze. It's my first run so I'm still using the
twmwindow manager. I'm getting the same thing as you- a blank desktop. The only time i can see anyhting is when I hold down the left mouse key(twm's ugly!). When I quitXserver I got these error messages:Try entering text mode and note what is being displayed. If you have
DRIdisabled like mine then it would explain the blank desktop sinceOpenGLdepends on DRI(Direct Rendering Infrastructure) for hardware accleration:and from the Compiz article: