Can't use compiz...
 

I start compiz from xinitrc with the decoration, wobbly, move and resize plugins.

I get no errors when starting, but I am completely unable to do anything.

I start a urxvt terminal to test if it is working or not, and this terminal has no border and I cannot move it or do anything.

I get no error messages from compiz...

Surely with the decorate plugin, I should at least be able to move the window around?

You'll need to start a window manager.

compiz is a compositing window manager is it not?

edit: Ahh...What I need is a decorator. Sigh.

run the "CCSM" first please.

ccsm does not come with slackware right?

I'm just trying to get compiz as comes with standard slackware to work, to see the cube effects and such.

or alternatively

I had this problem a few times and every time the only thing that actually worked for me was running this, at least only one that worked well
Make sure emerald is also installed though.

This worked for me, running lxde.

edit: Kind of buggy though with two monitors.

Wooh it works. Spiffy.

One question....probably quite dumb, but I can't find the answer to it so far....

In the screenshots I see, the cube looks "smaller" than the desktop screen, so when you rotate it it is very obviously a cube. At the moment when I rotate it, I can tell it is there, but it would not be obvious to people who did not know what to expect.

I also wonder if there is an easy way to have a different wallpapers and decorations for each desktop. I'm not interested in installing compiz-fusion, as I just wanted to see what compiz can do, and dont plan on using it as my actual wm.

Thanks

Seriously...do yourself a favour and install compiz-fusion and ccsm, or just skip it entirely. Having been through this myself quite a while ago, compiz really, really...*really* isn't meant for configuring without ccsm or another front-end. In fact many things prove to be *impossible* without installing a configuration tool.

As far as different wallpapers each desktop idk BUT I do know that in the rotate cube section of ccsm (not in desktop cube but rotate cube) there's a zoom setting. I currently have mine at 0.5 and the higher the number the farther it zooms out. Highest you can do is 2.0 which is TINY...Than again, you'd need ccsm for this.

2) Something like This http://webpages.charter.net/daedra1/conky-rgba.jpg?

This is possible but it requires you to recompile the kde-workspace package with a patch for compiz wallpaper. It's pretty easy but after you patch and recompile kde-workspace then you have to edit one file and then you can set your wallpapers from ccsm.