Hi,

I wanted to give compiz a try. I followed the Tutorial on Slackwiki
(http://slackwiki.org/Compiz). I *somehow* managed to achieve something,
which means when I switch desktops with [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [left]/[right],
I see a nice spinning cube, and when several windows are open, the [Alt]
+ [Tab] combination also gives a nice animation...

.... but I have no window decorations / window bars. I mean there's
nothing to reduce, maximize and close a window.

Anyone managed to get this to work with XFCE?

cheers,

Niki

Niki Kovacs wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to give compiz a try. I followed the Tutorial on
> Slackwiki (http://slackwiki.org/Compiz). I *somehow* managed to
> achieve something, which means when I switch desktops with
> [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [left]/[right], I see a nice spinning cube, and
> when several windows are open, the [Alt] + [Tab] combination
> also gives a nice animation...
>
> ... but I have no window decorations / window bars. I mean
> there's nothing to reduce, maximize and close a window.
>
> Anyone managed to get this to work with XFCE?
>
> cheers,
>
> Niki

You need a matching window decorator, probably
gtk-window-decorator or you kill xfwm4 and run kwin instead. I
get it working with

# killall xfwm4
# kwin &
# compiz --replace ini &
# kde-window-decorator --replace &

I guess you can do this somewhere in the xfce4 startup scripts.

HTH
Joerg

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On 2007-10-17, Joerg <jstadermann@see_signature.net> wrote:
> Niki Kovacs wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to give compiz a try. I followed the Tutorial on
>> Slackwiki (http://slackwiki.org/Compiz). I *somehow* managed to
>> achieve something, which means when I switch desktops with
>> [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [left]/[right], I see a nice spinning cube, and
>> when several windows are open, the [Alt] + [Tab] combination
>> also gives a nice animation...
>>
>> ... but I have no window decorations / window bars. I mean
>> there's nothing to reduce, maximize and close a window.
>>
>> Anyone managed to get this to work with XFCE?
>>
>
> You need a matching window decorator, probably
> gtk-window-decorator or you kill xfwm4 and run kwin instead. I
> get it working with
>
> # killall xfwm4
> # kwin &
> # compiz --replace ini &
> # kde-window-decorator --replace &
>
> I guess you can do this somewhere in the xfce4 startup scripts.


I haven't really used compiz enough to say for sure that this
works as expected, but enough users have supplied feedback to
that end: http://slackware.com/~rworkman/compiz/
That will give you the gtk-window-decorator.

-RW