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From: Chris on 9 Apr 2008 05:55
Hello all,

Anyone else notice that the gtk-window-decorator is much more responsive
than the kde-window-decorator - in KDE!?

I have setup compiz-fusion on my system (AMD 64x2 6000+ with nVidia 8600
GT). I painstakingly force compiz-fusion's settings manager (ccsm) to use
kde-window-decorator. However, I find it laggy - very slow. So, I decided
to try the gtk-window-decorator and I was surprised at how much more
responsive and stable it was compared to the kde-window-decorator. And this
is under KDE! Anyone else notice this as well?


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From: Arno Lutz on 9 Apr 2008 14:46
Chris schrieb:
>Anyone else notice this as well?
take a look to "Compiz-Fusion-Icon".
Its more helpfull.

Tried emerald too?


Arno

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From: Chris on 10 Apr 2008 08:53
Arno Lutz wrote:

> Chris schrieb:
>>Anyone else notice this as well?
> take a look to "Compiz-Fusion-Icon".
> Its more helpfull.
>
> Tried emerald too?
>
>
> Arno
>

I have the fusion icon installed. I ended up going back to the
kde-window-decorator. I uninstalled the gtk and emerald one. I didn't like
how the look 'n feel wasnt consistent with KDE (rightly so though).

One strange this is that kde-window-decorator starts up with only --replace.
I need --opacity 1.0 because the decoration becomes invisible and corrupted
with any alpha blending is applied. So, I edited the Default.ini by hand
using vi and added the --opacity option.

However, each time I log in (reboot or otherwise), the --opacity setting
disappears. So, I had to make ~/.config/compiz/compizmanager/Default.ini
read-only.

Now the problem is that when I login in, kde-window-decorator still doesn't
have the right settings. But if I right-click on the fusion icon and select
Restart Window Manager, everything is ok.

I'm not sure where which file is being read for the initial launch of
kde-window-decorator.

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Chris
From: Chris on 11 Apr 2008 10:46
Chris wrote:

> Now the problem is that when I login in, kde-window-decorator still
> doesn't have the right settings. But if I right-click on the fusion icon
> and select Restart Window Manager, everything is ok.
>
> I'm not sure where which file is being read for the initial launch of
> kde-window-decorator.

In case someone else would like to know, the kde-window-decorator is being
initially started by the script /usr/bin/compiz-manager.

I added the "--opacity 1.0" to the "kde-window-decorator --replace" line in
that script and now kde-window-decorator starts up perfectly. No need to
issue fusion icon->Reload Window Manager.


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From: Chris on 11 Apr 2008 11:11
Chris wrote:

> Chris wrote:
>
>> Now the problem is that when I login in, kde-window-decorator still
>> doesn't have the right settings. But if I right-click on the fusion icon
>> and select Restart Window Manager, everything is ok.
>>
>> I'm not sure where which file is being read for the initial launch of
>> kde-window-decorator.
>
> In case someone else would like to know, the kde-window-decorator is being
> initially started by the script /usr/bin/compiz-manager.
>
> I added the "--opacity 1.0" to the "kde-window-decorator --replace" line
> in that script and now kde-window-decorator starts up perfectly. No need
> to issue fusion icon->Reload Window Manager.
>
>

Well, after all the digging I did, I realised that my system was not setup
right. I had compiz-manager RPM installed which gives the compiz-manager
script. However, this RPM is not needed when the fusion-icon is installed.
So I uninstalled the compiz-manager RPM and in ~/.kde/Autostart I added a
symlink to /usr/bin/fusion-icon and everything works as it should. The
kde-window-decorator is started using the ccsm Window Decorator settings.

Sorry for all this noise!
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Chris
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