Gnome + Compiz-fusion

jaden78 · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 6

I've looked and I know it's something small I'm missing but I can't seem to find it in the docs or forums so I'm asking for a little help.

I have a gnome 2.20 + ati os drivers + aiglx and I'm trying to get compiz-fusion working. I tried compiz from portage and it didn't seem to work so I'm trying the desktop-effects version and it's now working mostly. When I login I have the typical issue where the shadows show up as a white boarder but everything else seems to work ok. If I start fusion-icon the shadows come back and everything is hunky dory. That said I assume compiz is starting with gtk-window-decorator not emerald and when I start fusion-icon it replaces it with emerald. I checked in the compiz manager and emerald --replace is there but it still doesn't work when logging in. Somewhere while looking I thought I read where that is only used if another window manager is not already loaded.

Is there somewhere else I can look to see where it's loading gtk-window-decorator?

nixnut · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject:

Moved from Desktop Environments to Unsupported Software.
Overlay stuff, so unsupported.
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SeaTiger · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:07 am Post subject:

How do you start compiz now?

Eckos · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:37 am Post subject:

i got it by doing this in gnome-terminal

Dagger · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 765 Location: UK

you can add your fusion-icon to System->Preferences->Sessions or to .gnomerc
if should automatically replace your gtk-window-decorator

my fusion-icon automatically executes the following