Xfce and Compiz on RHEL 9?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Thomas,

Compiz is an X11 window and compositor manager, just like xfwm4, the xfce
window manager.

You do not need to build xfce "for" compiz, all you need to do is to
replace xfwm4 with Compiz in your session.

As you already pointed out, this can be usually achieved by running "compiz
--replace &" from a terminal while your session is running, and saving your
session at logout so that compiz is started automatically at the next login.

If compiz locks up your session, I can only assume this is a compiz or a
driver issue (Mesa, assuming you're not using the NVIDIA proprietary
driver), nothing to do with xfce itself.

HTH,
Cheers,
Olivier

On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 20:21, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>
wrote:

> Howdy, all!
>
> I use the Xfce packages from EPEL on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL
> 9) workstation. I've used Xfce since the mid-2000s, and I really love
> it, but I'm curious about something:
>
> Is current Xfce (4.18.4) in EPEL built to work with Compiz? I've seen
> some pretty cool videos on Xfce with Compiz and I just can't get it to
> work. I asked in #xfce on LiberaChat irc, and the consensus seemed to be
> that the EPEL packages must not be built for Compiz. I've grepped for
> "Compiz" throughout all the /usr/share/doc/xfce4* directories, and it
> *looks* like it should be enabled, but every time I try to run "compiz
> --replace," my desktop locks up. I've installed compiz* and emerald* on
> a development machine to test, and it just locks up. I even tried compiz
> --replace; emerald --replace from the command line, but it still locks up.
>
> --
> Thanks!
> Thomas
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