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1. Open lxsession-edit.
2. Switch to Advanced page.
3. Change your window manager to compiz.
4. Logout and login again
done
What's the problem?

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:19:25 +0200
> Zsolt Peter Basak <shiki.biomernok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I heard someone do this but seriously, I do not think its possible.
>> LXDE uses Openbox. That is a window manager. Compiz is also a window
>> manager, so the two replaces each other.
>>
>> One shot you can try is the 0.9 Compiz++ branch. (Or wait until it
>> comes out). That'll support stand-alone window managing, so it'll work
>> I guess with lxde.
>
> Only one window manager may run per X display, yes. Compiz++ 0.9 is no
> exception. And yes, you can run Compiz in Lubuntu by replacing Openbox
> with it, using something like "compiz --replace", or even "compiz"
> alone, since compiz defaults to --replace behaviour in Ubuntu.
>
> To revert back, you can probably run "openbox --replace", or otherwise
> killall compiz, then run "openbox".
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Chow Loong Jin
>
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