Window Manager Options with Nvidia Drivers in 17.10

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#1

Hope I didn’t miss an already posted answer when I searched. If so, apologies.

Just did fresh install of UM 17.10 and find that with:

  • Nouveau Driver: I have a choice of 4 window managers - Marco (No Compositor, Software, or Compton) and Compiz
  • Nvidia Proprietary Driver: Only 2 choices - Marco with Software or no compositor. There are no GPU compositor options.

Is this the expected behavior for 17.10 when using Nvidia Proprietary Drivers? I don’t remember for certain, but I thought in 17.04 I had enabled Marco with Compton while using the Nvidia Propietary Drivers.

Thanks for any insights!

#2

No it’s not the normal behaviour.
My Setup:
Menu > Control Panel > Additional Drivers
NVIDIA Corporation: GM206 [GeForce GTX 960]
Using NVIDIA binary driver - version 384.90 from nvidia-384 (propetary,tested)
Menu > Control Panel > MATE Tweak > Windows
Windows manager : Marco(No compositor), Marco(Software compositor), Marco(compton GPU compositor) & Compiz(Advanced GPU accelerated desktop effects).strong text

Using 17.10 with Pantheon. 64bit AMD.

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#3

Thanks NerdPower for taking the time to confirm this. My setup is the same as yours, except for an older GPU (GTX 750Ti [GM107]).

Using the Additional Drivers GUI, I cycled through the 384 and 340 branches, and back to Nouveau twice. On the third try activating Proprietary from the 384 branch, all 4 compositor options showed up.

Now on Marco (Compton) through several restarts, so I’ll call this fixed!