CompizFusion at startup in Ubuntu Feisty

[luisjorge]

Hello! I just installed Compiz Fusion in Ubuntu Feisty 7.04, and everything works perfectly. The only problem is at startup, because I added the command "compiz --replace" or "compiz" to the startup programs in the session manager, but it doesn't load at startup. Also, I had gDesklets loading at startup, and they no longer do.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

Luis Jorge.

[Forlong]

You could use a script to delay the start of Compiz:
Open a text editor and type:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 5
compiz --replace &
sleep 5
gdesklets
Save the file under the name start-compiz in your home folder.
Then make it executable:
chmod +x start-compiz
And use it for the autostart.

[luisjorge]

Hi! Sorry for taking so long to reply. Forlong, thanks very much for the tip. At first, it didn't work, but then I realized that Compiz was loading right when the panels were loading, so something was wrong there. I set the sleep time to a little more and worked! I now have AWN set in the same script. Compiz has failed to start properly just once in about 20 or so boots, and I think that one was something I did.
My script is this:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 16
compiz --replace &
sleep 10
avant-window-navigator

And to date, it works! Thanks!
Also, I got rid of gDesklets because they didn't seem to work properly with compiz, everything became more unstable and they were slowing down my boot time.

[Fyda]

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