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Re: Compiz doesn't start when I log in



On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 23:48 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 09 juillet 2008 à 09:05 -0400, Adam C Powell IV a écrit :
> > However, when I run "compiz &" from the command line, it works
> > perfectly.  Why would that be?
> > 
> > A clue: when run from the command line, ps shows: 
> > /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --replace --indirect-rendering ccp
> > And in .gnome2/session, the compiz section is: 
> > 12,id=103428a3d9000121560782100000082270004
> > 12,RestartStyleHint=2
> > 12,Program=/usr/bin/compiz.real
> > 12,CloneCommand=/usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --indirect-rendering ccp 
> > 12,RestartCommand=/usr/bin/compiz.real --sm-client-id 103428a3d9000121560782100000082270004 --ignore-desktop-hints --indirect-rendering ccp 
> > 
> > But running the compiz.real CloneCommand instead of "compiz &" fails in
> > the same way as shown above.
> > 
> > How can I add whatever magic is in /usr/bin/compiz to make this work
> > from the session manager, so I don't have to run it from the command
> > line?
> 
> Compiz needs to be patched to report itself as compiz instead of argv[0]
> to the session manager. GNOME applications do that with 
> gnome_client_set_restart_command, I don’t know for compiz.

This is still not fixed, even with a recent (last week?) update to
compiz in testing.

Is this working for anyone?  How?  How severe a bug should this be --
important, grave (since it's unusable on second login)?

-Adam
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