compiz-fusion on XFCE by default

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statmobile · Post by **statmobile** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:21 pm

Does anybody have advice on how to make compiz-fusion the automatic window manager on XFCE? I can start it by running compiz-start, but apparently if I run that from the terminal I can't put the command in the background or everything freezes. Anyway, is there a way to make compiz-fusion start automatically?

ShinyThings · Post by **ShinyThings** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:47 pm

I just have this in my .xinitrc:

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/usr/bin/compiz --replace ccp &
/usr/bin/startxfce4

The --replace isn't necessary as no wm has started. I also have it set up so xfwm4 doesn't start, or else it could replace compiz.

To stop xfwm4 from starting, comment out these (or similar) lines in /etc/xdg/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc:

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#Client0_Command=xfwm4
#Client0_PerScreen=False

Perhaps you could instead put compiz there, but I had troubles doing that. Also, I had troubles with the compiz-start script, so I ran compiz directly.

statmobile · Post by **statmobile** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:09 pm

Actually, I figured out that in Settings in the XFCE menu you can choose "Autostarted Applications". I put compiz-start in there, and that works. But like you said, it still starts xfwm first then it starts compiz-fusion. So overall, I think both of our methods are a bit ad-hoc. Does anybody know of the best or most efficient way to do this?