Compiz-Fusion should run the Emerald screen decorator - you need to 1) make sure you don't have two sets of packages fighting over which runs your desktop* 2) need to configure Compiz-Fusion to run the Emeral decorator, and pick an Emerald theme. Do you have the CCSM to manage Compiz-Fusion. Search YouTube for some very good tutorials. *on Fedora the Compiz-Fusion that worked wasn't the one that got installed from the Fedora repositories. I think this may be fixed as the alternative repository was actually being run by a commiter to the main Fedora repositories - or they just became more formally an extras repo... On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > After a long battle with technology, Joshua Nalli wrote: >> How come when I enable visual effects in Ubuntu, I [lose] the ability >> to move the windows around and close or minimize them? Is this just >> because of compiz? > > Your compiz-fusion settings are incorrect in some way. It sounds like your > old window manager has died, and compiz hasn't started up correctly. > Describe your problem more fully. Have the titlebars and frames disappeared? > If so, then yeah, compiz isn't running. Each distro does compiz differently. > > In Gentoo, I had to either use the evil nvidia modules or the radeon modules > (depending on whether the machine I was using had an nVidia card or an ATi > card, you're on your own if you have an i810.) I also had to edit > the /usr/bin/compiz-manager script to make it do things properly. It ended > up doing: > > # this is what controls the way the frame+titlebars look > # you can also use emerald or gtk-window-decorator > kde-window-decorator --replace & > # this is the actual window manager > /usr/bin/compiz --replace ccp > > ...but you may not wish to run compiz, because it's still beta, and the eye > candy is just eye candy even though "annotate" could be useful for some > things. > > -- > "Oh bother," said the Borg, "We've assimilated Pooh." > --MHR on alt.fan.pratchett > My blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss