Scripting Compiz enable/disable

[darkknight045]

There are some games and functionality that I would like to be able to automate a bit.

Is there a away to enable/disable compiz through bash commands so that upon the game closing I can signal for compiz to start back up with the settings it had before?

[mcduck]

Sure.

"metacity --replace" will replace your current window manager with Metacity, which is the default WM for Gnome.

..and "compiz --replace" will then replace Metacity with Compiz.

[finch127]

Yeah I actually wrote a script for this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1207203

Check it out, if it is indeed what you need.