I saw a Beryl demo last night and getting the spinning cube going is now on the top of the to-do list. I want to use Compiz and XFCE4 on my laptop - PM 1.7G, 1G RAM and a GeForce FX Go5200 64M.

I've tried to follow the instructions given here and elsewhere, but can't get around the error message: Another window manager is already running on screen: 0
compiz: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

The HOWTOs always seem to contain something like:

Replace:
Client0_Command=xfwm4

With:
Client0_Command=compiz-manager

Except I have no compiz-* binaries. I have tried the stock Slack 12.0 Compiz package and upgraded with the rworkman version. Same thing.

Am I missing a package or can someone point me to a solid HOWTO on Compiz with XFCE4?

TIA

compiz --replace

Let me be more specific. If I run the following command -
compiz --replace decoration wobbly fade minimize cube move place resize rotate scale switcher water zoom gtk-window-decorator &

it returns this error -
compiz: Another window manager is already running on screen: 0
compiz: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

The docs I've read suggest editing xfce4-session.rc and entering a line with the command compiz-manager. There are other mentions of [i]compiz-settings[/]. I have only one compiz binary - /usr/bin/compiz

There are no compiz-xxx.

Try Settings / Window Manager Tweaks / Disable compositing.

Also, add:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

to the end of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf


If that won't work either then do compiz --replace & kde-window-decorator --replace &

I warn you that Compiz will be utterly slow! Nvidia driver problems with the Xorg 7.3 that Slack 12 uses...

I'd already made those changes to the xorg.conf file.
Thanks.

Shameless bump. Surely some has this working with Slack 12.0 and XFCE.

I tried getting compiz working and it sort of works, except that all my window decorations are gone. And I get the following when I run it.

compiz: Failed to load slide: freedesktop
compiz: Couldn't load plugin 'gtk-window-decorator'


BTW, this is also in xfce, but i've tried it in kde with the same results.

You aren't the only one wondering how to get this working. If I find something out I'll follow up in this post.