On Mon 12 Jun 2006 15:09, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > http://en.opensuse.org/Using_Xgl_on_SUSE_Linux > In the above page, the user is advised to create a compiz.desktop file in > KDE Autostart. > > This is not optimal, because KDE's window manager kwin is started first, > then replaced by compiz. On my machines this also created problems with > other programs that are autostarted (have icons in KDE systray). > > It also has the disadvantage that a compiz.desktop needs to be created in > each user's home. > > I propose a much better way: > > 1. create /usr/local/bin/compiz.sh with this content: > /usr/bin/compiz gconf & /usr/bin/gnome-window-decorator & > > 2. make it executable: > chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/compiz.sh > > 3. create /etc/profile.d/kdewm.sh with this content > export KDEWM=/usr/local/bin/compiz.sh > No need to make it executable. > > This will start compiz directly, not kwin. It's effective for all users of > the computer. If that's not desirable, you can add the line with "export > KDEWM" to the ~/.profile file instead of /etc/profile.d > > If nobody objects to this method, I'll edit the wiki page.
I vote that you go ahead. This works ALOT better than the currently documented method. Cheers -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc
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