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[Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A man of few words, :-)
Is it worth an entry onto the Wiki page and would 'Advanced' be the correct
area for it?

Regards,

Phill.

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:13 AM, PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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