Hi. I'm trying sgfxi in kubuntu 12.04 and have some trouble. It worked like a breeze in Mint 13, but in kde it uninstalls Kwin and I can't get a working window manager. libkwinnvidiahack4 gets removed and kwin gets removed with it. If I reinstall kwin, it breaks my setup and the nvidia driver. I tried with compiz as window manager instead but then I get no window decorations (there is some fixes suggested for that at compiz but none of them worked). Is there a way I can install Kwin without libkwinnvidiahacks4 or is there a better way?

sgfxi.log
pastebin.com/Ckh76fxq
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Ubuntu is a pain to support because of these hacks.

I don't run it, so sgfxi support is just what it is. libkwinnvidiahack4 is not known to me, what does it hack, how does it work, can it be left in during an install of the standard nvidia driver?

Do this: apt-cache depends libkwinnvidiahack4

and: apt-cache rdepends libkwinnvidiahack4

and let me see that output.

If it's not a core nvidia thing, I can blacklist it, but if it conflicts with the real nvidia driver, then I can't blacklist it.

to install kwin just do apt-get install kwin

Do: apt-cache depends kwin

too while we're at it.

Ubuntu does a lot of weird and hard to deal with things with their nvidia driver and fglrx driver handling, in fact, I'm surprised to see ubuntu users running sgfxi at all but I guess some of you figured out how to handle it.

Adding blacklists or whitelists to the nvidia cleanup tool is easy, I just have to know what the repercussions will be of doing that.
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apt-cache depends libkwinnvidiahack4 :
libkwinnvidiahack4
Depends: libc6
Breaks: kde-window-manager-common
Breaks: kde-window-manager-common:i386
Replaces: kde-window-manager-common
Replaces: kde-window-manager-common:i386
Conflicts: libkwinnvidiahack4:i386

apt-cache rdepends libkwinnvidiahack4 :
libkwinnvidiahack4
Reverse Depends:
libkwinnvidiahack4:i386
kde-window-manager-gles
kde-workspace-dev
kde-window-manager
libkwinnvidiahack4:i386
kde-window-manager-gles
kde-workspace-dev
kde-window-manager
libkwinnvidiahack4:i386
kde-window-manager-gles
kde-workspace-dev
kde-window-manager

apt-cache depends kwin :
kde-window-manager
Depends: kde-runtime
Depends: libc6
|Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx
Depends: <libgl1>
libgl1-mesa-glx
libgl1-mesa-swx11
Depends: libice6
Depends: libkactivities6
Depends: libkdeclarative5
Depends: libkdecorations4
Depends: libkdecore5
Depends: libkdeui5
Depends: libkephal4abi1
Depends: libkwineffects1abi3
Depends: libkwinglutils1
Depends: libkworkspace4abi1
Depends: libplasma3
Depends: libqt4-dbus
Depends: libqt4-declarative
Depends: libqt4-script
Depends: libqt4-xml
Depends: libqtcore4
Depends: libqtgui4
Depends: libsm6
Depends: libstdc++6
Depends: libx11-6
Depends: libxcomposite1
Depends: libxcursor1
Depends: libxdamage1
Depends: libxext6
Depends: libxfixes3
Depends: libxrandr2
Depends: libxrender1
Depends: kde-window-manager-common
Depends: libkwinnvidiahack4
Breaks: kde-window-manager-common
Breaks: kde-window-manager-common:i386
Breaks: kdebase-workspace-bin
Breaks: <kdebase-workspace-bin:i386>
Replaces: kde-window-manager-common
Replaces: kde-window-manager-common:i386
Replaces: kdebase-workspace-bin
Replaces: <kdebase-workspace-bin:i386>
Conflicts: kde-window-manager:i386

Thanks for looking at this. Well sgfxi sure is a lot easier than the mess I run into when I first tried to install the nvidia driver. As you can see kwin is actually named kde-window-manager. I had a serious bug with the free driver. Something like this:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/993187
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thanks, please try sgfxi again and see if it works. I've whitelisted that kwinnvidiahacks package.
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Fantastic! That worked very well. Thank You!
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