<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Thomas,<div><br></div><div>Compiz is an X11 window and compositor manager, just like xfwm4, the xfce window manager.</div><div><br></div><div>You do not need to build xfce "for" compiz, all you need to do is to replace xfwm4 with Compiz in your session.</div><div><br></div><div>As you already pointed out, thisĀ can be usually achieved by running "compiz --replace &" from a terminal while your sessionĀ is running, and saving your session at logout so that compiz is started automatically at the next login.</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Olivier</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 20:21, Thomas Cameron <<a href="mailto:thomas.cameron@camerontech.com" target="_blank">thomas.cameron@camerontech.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Howdy, all!<br>
<br>
I use the Xfce packages from EPEL on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL <br>
9) workstation. I've used Xfce since the mid-2000s, and I really love <br>
it, but I'm curious about something:<br>
<br>
Is current Xfce (4.18.4) in EPEL built to work with Compiz? I've seen <br>
some pretty cool videos on Xfce with Compiz and I just can't get it to <br>
work. I asked in #xfce on LiberaChat irc, and the consensus seemed to be <br>
that the EPEL packages must not be built for Compiz. I've grepped for <br>
"Compiz" throughout all the /usr/share/doc/xfce4* directories, and it <br>
*looks* like it should be enabled, but every time I try to run "compiz <br>
--replace," my desktop locks up. I've installed compiz* and emerald* on <br>
a development machine to test, and it just locks up. I even tried compiz <br>
--replace; emerald --replace from the command line, but it still locks up.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Thanks!<br>
Thomas<br>
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