MariusLV
April 27th, 2009, 04:48 PM
Hi all!
I love GNOME, but I also love KWin and its ability to display thumbnail previews even of minimized windows. As I find this feature quite useful I decided to replace Compiz with KWin in GNOME. This is easy enough in itself, but I have yet to find out how to enable it by default.
I made a workaround by making "kwin --replace" run as a startup script, but it is a very poor one. This method essentially involves loading metacity, only to replace it a second afterwards, which is silly enough in itself, but it also means that any program that depends on composition will refuse to load on startup. Specifically, this means I cannot have Docky (Gnome-Dos über-spiffy dock application) auto-start, but have to manually start it after KWin has loaded.
I realize mine is a bit of a luxury problem, but I was wondering still if anyone has a solution to this issue. Or perhaps I am the only one who feels the need to run KWin in GNOME?
Hope to hear from someone :-)
Thanks for reading!
I love GNOME, but I also love KWin and its ability to display thumbnail previews even of minimized windows. As I find this feature quite useful I decided to replace Compiz with KWin in GNOME. This is easy enough in itself, but I have yet to find out how to enable it by default.
I made a workaround by making "kwin --replace" run as a startup script, but it is a very poor one. This method essentially involves loading metacity, only to replace it a second afterwards, which is silly enough in itself, but it also means that any program that depends on composition will refuse to load on startup. Specifically, this means I cannot have Docky (Gnome-Dos über-spiffy dock application) auto-start, but have to manually start it after KWin has loaded.
I realize mine is a bit of a luxury problem, but I was wondering still if anyone has a solution to this issue. Or perhaps I am the only one who feels the need to run KWin in GNOME?
Hope to hear from someone :-)
Thanks for reading!