Compiz in Lubuntu?

[BigBig5]

How can you get Compiz to work in Lubuntu. I tryed to change the window manager, but can't. Is there a way?

[BigBig5]

I have change the windows manager to Compiz, but Compiz effcts don't work.

[soldier1st]

compiz ib Lubuntu is not easy to implement as Lubuntu is meant to be a lightweight Distro with lightweight applications and sadly compiz is not lightweight so if you want compiz then you will need to run Either Ubuntu or Kubuntu and possibly Xubuntu though i doubt Xubuntu could easily do compiz. to me Lubuntu feels too restrictive in what you can do.

[meskes]

While soldier1st is correct about Compiz not really being able to work with Lubuntu, he's incorrect about it not being easily enabled in Xubuntu. XFCE supports Compiz quite nicely and there is even a howto which walks you through installing and configuring it on the forums.

Matt

[Tibuda]

I see no reason why it would not work on Lubuntu. You can even use Compiz as a standalone window manager with no DE, like Openbox. EDIT: this link have some screenshots of Compiz in LXDE.

First, do you have your video drivers installed? Check the hardware driver manager. (I don't know how to use it on Lubuntu, but I guess it is similar)

Second, try running the following command from a terminal. It will replace whatever window manager is running for Compiz.

compiz --replace ccp

EDIT: Third, do you have another window decorator (Emerald or Metacity) installed?

[nothingspecial]

I run compiz in lubuntu and it works very nicely thankyou very much.

You need to add it to your start up applications

sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart

add a line to the bottom of that file

@compiz --replace

Press Ctrl-O then Enter to save then Ctrl-X to close nano.

It should start at login