Autostarting Compiz on Login: OpenSuSE 10.3 and KDE
Ok, so ever since my openSUSE 10.2 to 10.3 upgrade I've been manually running "compiz-manager" to get compiz+emerald running. Today I finally got pissed enough to do something about it. First of all, it doesn't help one bit there are like a thousand wiki entries on the openSUSE site all instructing different things. Yes, that is an exaggeration but you get my point.
To simply state my problem, when I would start KDE I'd have no window decorations until I ran "compiz-manager". Most the instructions in the wiki tell you to doink with the file ~/bin/kde-start-compiz. That's simply crap. Doesn't work. Not only doesn't it work but it should have work right out of the box with my upgrade to 10.3. But hey it's Linux...you get what you pay for (which is part of why I'll be going to Mac at home exclusively once I donate enough plasma to afford one).
The fix? Simple...just add a file called compiz-start.sh to your ~/.kde/Autostart with the following:
#!/bin/bash compiz-manager& emerald --replace&After that make it executable and you are done:
#>chmod 700 ~/.kde/Autostart/compiz-start.sh
