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From: Stig Mogensen <stig.mogensen@gmail.com>

Hey group,

I wanted to find out what all this was about, and tried it. Can't get it to
run. It seems to crash my KDE windowmanager, and leave me with nothing apart from
the windows themselvs......ie, the uppermost bar, with "minimize" "maximize"
and
"shut down" buttons are gone.

I read the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_nVidia_GL_Desktop_Effects and the
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Compiz and installed compiled the programmes, and altered
my xorg.conf file, as desribed. But when I try out

compiz-start

my windowmanager goes away.

I run KDE 3.5.5, and nvidia 1.0.9755-r1, on xorg-x11 7.2, and xorg-server
1.2.0-r3.

Any tips as to what goes wrong?

/Stig
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From: "Arthur Hagen" <art@broomstick.com>

Stig Mogensen <stig.mogensen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey group,
>
> I wanted to find out what all this was about, and tried it. Can't get
> it to run. It seems to crash my KDE windowmanager, and leave me with
> nothing apart from the windows themselvs......ie, the uppermost bar,
> with "minimize" "maximize" and "shut down" buttons are gone.
>
> I read the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_nVidia_GL_Desktop_Effects and
> the http://gentoo-wiki.com/Compiz and installed compiled the
> programmes, and altered my xorg.conf file, as desribed. But when I
> try out
>
> compiz-start
>
> my windowmanager goes away.

It's supposed to.
And then the alternative window manager with the effects is supposed to start
up. The best I can recommend is to look in log files, and if necessary, print
out a copy of the compiz-start script and run the commands manually, one by one,
(with debugging or verbose mode turned on if available).

> I run KDE 3.5.5, and nvidia 1.0.9755-r1, on xorg-x11 7.2, and
> xorg-server
> 1.2.0-r3.
>
> Any tips as to what goes wrong?

As far as I know, compiz was originally only a metacity (the Gnome WM)
replacement, and you may have to jump through extra hoops for KDE. You might want
to give the compiz fork "Beryl" a try.

Regards,
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*Art