XFCE and Compiz?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:09:27 +0100
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Well, that was kind of the answer I was looking for, thx... :)

BTJ