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richie
Asked: 2012-04-01 11:57:59 +0800 CST

Use compiz on startup, compiz --replace bad?

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I want to run compiz on startup instead of the default window manager in the Gnome Classic Gnome Shell Fallback. My problem is that I can't find the "correct" way to do this. I have tried a bunch of stuff, e.g.

http://www.jejik.com/articles/2008/10/how_to_properly_start_compiz_in_gnome/

which doesn't work. The only way that have worked for me is using compiz --replace at startup but this slows down the startup, right? I mean, if I use the default window manager and i also have the compiz --replace at startup, wont it cause a slower startup when both the default window manager and compiz are launched (even though one is terminated)?

I also have the windowmanager set to compiz in the 

"desktop->gnome->session->required_components"

in gconf-editor and it still doesn't work.

Any idea how I can disable the default window manager and use Compiz instead?

BTW: Im using ubuntu 11.10

gnome compiz metacity 11.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Let me start off with telling that compiz is the default for Gnome-Classic in Ubuntu 12.04. So you might just want to upgrade. The Gnome-Classic session received lots of love in Ubuntu 12.04 and really works like the good old Ubuntu desktop.

    On session configuration: The sessions are configured in /usr/share/xsessions where gnome.desktop is the default session. The .desktop session files usually run something like gnome-session --session=ubuntu or gnome-session --session=gnome-classic.

    These refer to files located in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions where you can tell the specific session which window-manager to use.

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