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Re: Compiz and window decorations



On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:01:29PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:38:56 +0300
> Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:41:23PM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote:
> >  
> > >    Now I have another doubt. I want compiz to start with GNOME.
> > > What's the best way to do that? The 'standard' solution I found is
> > > placing a new entry in GNOME's startup applications, but I feel it
> > > would be a better approach to replace metacity in gconf's
> > > '/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current' with compiz,
> > > but I'm not sure this is safe to do. 
> > >    What do you guys think?
> > 
> > I'm just looking myself for a way to do the same in xfce4.
> 
> Both GNOME and XFCE4 have session managers. So if you get compiz
> running successfully, and save your session before you log out, then it
> will be there when you log in again.

It didn't work for me. Eventually I created a new session and edited the 
session config directly (.cache/session/xfce4-session-...) to exchange 
xfwm4 with compiz. Now it works almost perfectly (the splash screen 
becomes garbled just before it disappears).

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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