In your .conkyrc change your windows type line like this
own_window_type desktop

Not sure about the second question, I would try over at #compiz. There pretty helpful over there. I set it up so that what ever desktop I click on the pager the cube will flip over to that desktop.

Thanks again Daedra! I should have re-read my early dealings with you and conky, as you had mentioned own_window_type desktop was needed to get conky and compiz to give full transparency. Back then I had stayed with "normal" instead of "desktop", as using the latter without compiz gave issues. Interesting how the opposite for the former raises undesirable effects.

How did you go about setting your pager to flip to a specific viewport according to the corresponding desktop? I had it set somehow, but when I logged out and logged back into KDE the pager showed only one instead of 8. Since you don't use KDE's virtual desktops, how do you go about keeping session states between logout/login of KDE? From what I was told in #compiz, saving session states is available in the .9 version.

Have you tried settings compiz as your default window manager is System Settings>Default Applications? I find that starting compiz afer KDE is loaded using fusion-icon can mess up the pager settings.

Also under Ccsm in general settings under the Desktop Size tab, set Horizontal Virtual Size to 4 and number of desktops to 1. This is what I do, but you could try playing with this.

Looks like this was the culprit! Don't think I would have ever found this because I thought after loading fusion-icon, the "Select window manager" was set to compiz so I thought that was enough. Now everything behaves more... to my liking! Only thing is saving the session state between KDE sessions. Any tricks up your sleeve for this one? I would like to start up my next KDE session sort of where I left of, so if I had 4 Konsoles in view port 3 and my web browser in view port 1 I would log into KDE with exactly those open in exactly those view ports.

also one more little tip, If you use a nvidia card then you can launch "nvidia-settings" and go the PowerMizer and select "Prefer Maximum Performance" This will make compiz much smoother on a nvidia card, however this can raise the temp of your video card, for me the trade off is worth it.

And I have the same problem with the desktop/viewports. When ever I close KDE and restart all my windows end up back at viewport 1. I have just learned to live with it, maybe thats something they will fix in the 0.9 branch.

Try opening up gimp and making your own trans.png, for some reason this will only work if you make your own png.

Which nvidia card do you have? I don't seem to see a difference between adaptive and the "prefer max performance" setting on mine. Temps are slightly higher just having compiz, but like you it's worth it.

There was mention that saving windows at specific view ports would be available in .9, but I thought I'd ask in case you had a patch or something to make it work in 0.8.8.

Done! =)

Hi all, im trying to re-install compiz on my slackware 13.37.
I use Xfce 4.8

Im looking for a way to install compizconfig-python, which release should i take for your slackbuild ?

Thanks in advance