Status of compiz(-fusion) for KDE

[Sebastian Vahl]

Am Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:49:28 +0200
schrieb dragoran <drago01 at gmail.com>:

> Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > Am Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:29:03 -0400
> > schrieb "Kristian Høgsberg" <krh at bitplanet.net>:
> >
> >   
> >> On 9/26/07, Sebastian Vahl <ml at deadbabylon.de> wrote:
> >>     
> >>> What's the actual plan for the kde side of compiz? I was asked
> >>> some time ago to replace beryl with compiz(-fusion) on the
> >>> KDE-LiveCD. ATM compiz is lacking a configuration tool (former
> >>> beryl-settings) and also maybe a switcher for kwin <-> compiz
> >>> (Kevin Kofler is investigating these atm).
> >>>       
> >> We now have a compiz-kde pacakge that has the kde-window-decorator
> >> and the GNOME specific bits are split into compiz-gnome.  As for
> >> configuration tools, I'm thinking that they can be packaged up as
> >> separate RPMs and people can pick the tool they prefer.
> >>     
> >
> > Putting the configuration tools in separate packages would be the
> > best - at least for the size of the livecds. But compiz itself
> > seems only to work when started with gconf as plugin (which is in
> > compiz-gnome). A simple:
> >  compiz --replace &
> >  kde-window-decorator --replace &
> > seems not to work. I may be wrong in that, because it was only a
> > quick test today. If I find some time I will investigate this and
> > open a bug.
> >
> >   
> you have to pass a configuration backend to compiz
> compiz --replace ini & should work.

Thanks, that was it. It's still not really working but this shouldn't
become a support thread. :)

> the kconfig backend is not in the stable (0.6) branch yet.
> so it will be in compiz 0.8 when it gets released which is too late
> for F8.

Thanks for explanation.

Sebastian

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