While experimenting with sending virtual keystrokes, things got seriously hung up! I powered off, When the system restarted all window decoration was missing, and all fancy compiz graphics was missing.
I ran metacity --replace
. That brought back the window decoration, but still no compiz. I ran compiz --replace
, that brought back compiz functionality, but this time, no window decoration.
How can I get Compiz and Metacity back together again?
Best Answer
Compiz and Metacity are both window managers. You cannot use two different window managers at the same time. However, windows' decoration is done by a window decorator, not a window manager. You can use, e.g., either
gtk-window-decorator
(which can match your previous MetaCity themes), or Beryl's ownemerald
window decorator, which was made to work with Compiz, and has lots of nice themes.Whatever you choose, be sure to check the settings for Compiz's Window Decorator plugin. (Run CompizConfig Settings Manager or
ccsm
and enable that plugin, and choose eithergtk-window-decorator
oremerald
for the command; perhaps adding--replace
if it helps.)