On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 00:13 +0000, Ben Boeckel wrote:
In gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel Adam Williamson
<awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> * desktop-effects is deprecated and broken, do not use it: install
> 'compiz-gnome' and there'll be a 'Classic GNOME with Compiz'
choice at
> the login manager you can use to get a GNOME 2 + Compiz-style desktop
> (with panel, not Shell)
Hmm. Does this mean that compiz-as-compositor (with, say, xmonad) is no
longer possible?
not at all, you'll just have to do it manually or in your startup script
or whatever. desktop-effects ran compiz-gtk, which is a wrapper script
that calls gtk-window-decorator as well as compiz, in any case; so
desktop-effects was not a good way to run just compiz (with no
decorator) anyway. it may have worked for you if you somehow managed to
hide gtk-window-decorator from it, or something, but that would be more
by accident than by design. :) as I understand things, anyway. Let me
know if I have the wrong end of the stick somewhere.
desktop-effects was only ever meant to be a way to launch compiz in a
specific context - as the compositing manager and window manager for a
GNOME desktop. it was never designed, or suitable, for launching compiz
for any other use.
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