Frederik Himpe wrote:
> Is there some Mandriva specific patch which changes the way the window
> manager is started, related to compiz or something like that? That
> could explain why it does only work when started by hand. It seems to be
> a Mandriva specific problem, as such a visible problem would probably
> already be known by upstream authors if it happend for everyone.


I you look in /etc/X11/xinit.d/40compositing-wm you'll see what we do.

We essentially override KDEWM env var which the KDE startup proceedure
should look at and honour.

It seems that this is not the case in KDE4 although I've had mixed
results when trying to get it to work!

The config inside KDE itself to allow starting of compiz, I've no idea
how it works. We do not run compiz directly in order to cope with Xgl
and the overriding of LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. needed in this case. I've not
looked at the code in KDE to start compiz, but I suspect it will need
patching in some capcity.

Col


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