On 10/11/07, Fernando Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I already have done all that, my system is running quite fine, sometimes > the icons in the taskbar get mad but adding and sleep before the compiz > --replacce command solves it. But my main question is that instead of > replacing compiz, why not use it directly? or what are we replacing with > the compiz --replace command? > A window manager is launched with --replace option to replace any other window manager if already running(metacity/kwin), otherwise it just start whatever window manager you called.
Trying to run a WM without --replace will fail if another is running, hence --replace. KDE and GNOME are the Desktop Environments(DE), so you cannot use compiz(WM) in its place in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager DEFAULT_WM. The variable name is a bit misleading. Cheers -J -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
