Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 11:21:28 pm you wrote:
One thing I am unclear of from your post is whether you are saying compiz will not start at all, or just will not start a login? Generally with kde, if compiz is running when you end your session, it will start again on the next login. I prefer loading kwin to begin with and then starting compiz manually, but obviously you would like it to do it automatically.
Hi David,
Yes I mean it's just not starting automatically after login, but if I go to start -> utilities -> desktop -> sccsm and put the tick "enable desktop effects" once I logged in, compiz starts and everything is fine. I just don't want to do that every time I restart my computer. (I can get it working also by doing "reload window manager" from compiz fusion icon)
.config/compiz/compizconfig/config
my config file looks pretty minimalist. --------------------- [kde_session] backend = ini profile = Default ---------------------
that would accomplish what your want. Also, you can set compiz as the default windows manager in kde control-center -> kde components -> Session Manager -> Window Manager.
I checked that earlier and yes it is set to compiz there (there was another option of compiz-custom which I also tried and it didn't work), but it still doesn't start automatically after restart.
There was a suggestion in one of the forums to create a file script in ~/.kde/Autostart, but I'm not sure I need to do that, since I already have something there
lrwxrwxrwx 1 floyd users 23 2008-05-02 23:16 compiz-manager -> /usr/bin/compiz-manager -rw-r--r-- 1 floyd users 1950 2008-06-21 00:24 .directory
It used to work smoothly before, I didn't even have fusion icon installed. Now it's so annoying to start it each time manually :-(
Thanks a lot for your help.
Sergey
Sergey, I also found this which looks promising. I haven't tried it, but this looks like where it needs to be changed: In KDE 3.5 you need to edit the text file $HOME/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc and change the line defaultWM= [General] confirmLogout=true defaultWM=compiz-manager ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ excludeApps= loginMode=restorePreviousLogout offerShutdown=true screenCount=1 shutdownType=0 Give it a shot and report back. (move or remove the Autostart/start-compiz script if you installed it) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. | openSoftware und SystemEntwicklung Rankin Law Firm, PLLC | Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 www.rankinlawfirm.com | http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org