XFCE and Compiz?

[Olivier Fourdan]

2009/8/6 Bjørn T Johansen <btj at havleik.no>:
> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:54:49 -0700
> "Brian J. Tarricone" <brian at tarricone.org> wrote:
>
>> On 08/06/2009 02:50 AM, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
>> > On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:01:57 -0700
>> > "Brian J. Tarricone"<brian at tarricone.org>  wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 08/06/2009 01:31 AM, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
>> >>> I have Fedora 11 installed currently and was thinking about enabling compiz.. All I find is tutorial on how to make compiz work with either
>> >>> Gnome or KDE... Will it work with XFCE? And can I just follow the tutorial for Gnome/KDE?
>> >> Why not try it and find out?
>> >>
>> >> (Google "xfce compiz" seems to return a bunch of hits too...)
>> >
>> > I could but I don't like to try and fail.... Too much to clean up afterwards... Easier to check with the source if this is even possible
>> > first... :)
>>
>> Why should you expect others to help you if you aren't willing to do
>> your own research or expend any effort yourself?  (Serious question.)
>>
>>       -brian
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>
> I thought that was the point with having a mailing list, asking for help.... No need for this list if that's not the case...
> But I won't bother you again...

Compiz is a window manager and a compositor manager, just like xfwm4.

As you cannot run more than one window manager and/or compositor
manager at a time on a given display/screen, it means that you have to
replace the window manager that ships with xfce with compiz.

Usually, it's just a matter of using the "--replace" option when
invoking the new window manager, check with compiz what else needs to
be run too (like a window decorator, which is a concept specific to
compiz).

In other words, this is more a question about compiz than xfce, so
Brian is right, you'd better check by yourself first, then come back
and ask for help if there is a problem specific to xfce.

Cheers,
Olivier.