[Solved] ccsm does not work

[sonicbhoc]

I spent forever and a day messing with ccsm to get my favorite configs (but there's no 3D plugin yet :cry: ) but none of them took effect. Do I have to restart compiz to get them to work? I tried that too and it didn't work either. I tried using the flat-file and KDE backends, but I'd like to stay away from the gconf backend because I use KDE and I hate gconf.

I tried gconf too and nothing happened.

Why doesn't it work?

I'll try logging off and logging on again with my new settings set but nothing seems to work. How do I configure compiz if ccsm doesn't work? and how do I tell it to use Emerald and not the KDE window decorations?

Restarting my computer didn't work and installing Beryl again would break emerald compatibility with compcomm (and take forever to download on my school's 5k connection <_<)

I really want this to work! I installed it from the Gentoo xeffects overlay.

[Jupiter]

Heya sonicbhoc. Are you using the compiz-manager start script?

[sonicbhoc]

compiz-manager? Nope, never tried that. I don't have a compiz-manager start script, just a compiz-start. I used that and it started with a kde window decorator that I didn't want (I'd rather have emerald), and ccsm doesn't work. It says it can't find the gconf plugin although I did install it.

My use flags for compiz are everything on except gnome. I refuse to enable the gnome flag, too many deps.

[Jupiter]

Ok try this.
Get Kristian's start script from here.
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=206 (http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=206)

Copy it to /usr/bin and make it executable. The first time you use it, it will
create a file /home/user/.config/compiz-managerrc
Make sure you have a /home/user/.compiz folder

Edit that file and make these changes.
# Plugins
PLUGINS="ccp"

# Decorator
DECORATOR="emerald"

Then restart compiz. And then start ccsm.
killall compiz
compiz --replace &
ccsm &

Now you should be able to change your settings and they will they stay.

[sonicbhoc]

wahoo! Solved!

Will that script become part of the default compcomm install sometime or will we come up with something similar to it to replace it?

[Jupiter]

wahoo! Solved!

Will that script become part of the default compcomm install sometime or will we come up with something similar to it to replace it?


Awesome.
Even better. There is a tray icon in the works which is like the beryl-manager tray icon.
It uses the script. It's called Go-Compiz
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=408 (http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=408)