Compiz fusion question?

[byronsky]

Ive got compiz fusion working on suse 10.3, but i need to make it start at boot. can anyone tell me how this could be done?

thanks

[hughitt1]

Hi,

If you are running gnome, then you can add compiz to the session by running gnome-session-properties and creating a new entry with "compiz --replace"

Goodluck!

[byronsky]

actually im running kde. sorry i forgot to mention that

[bigtomrodney]

All you need to do is create a launcher with the above command in it and move it to ~/.kde/Autostart and remember to make it executable in the prooperties dialogue.

~ represents your home directory and the dot in front of kde means it's a hidden directory.

[byronsky]

im sorry but im still pretty new to linux. im not really sure how i would do this. i made the file and saved it to ~/.kde/Autostart but i dont know how to make it executable

[gogalthorp]

Right click on it open properties and give it execute permission

or from the command line

chmod +x theFilename

[byronsky]

still not working. maybe i need to start over with a step by step procedure. sorry for the trouble. i havent been able to find any kind of tutorial on this.

[gogalthorp]

What is not working??

I'm confused on exactly what you are trying to run.

Does what you need to run require root access??

[byronsky]

Sorry, basically i installed compiz fusion and it is running fine. the only thing is to make it run i have to open the start menu go to start/system/more programs/compiz fusion icon to start the program so i can get the emerald theme and wobbly windows and such. i want it to start automatically when i start suse. ive tried the above methods (probably did something wrong) and rebooted a few times but it does not start.

[gogalthorp]

Try this then

Drag the menu item to the desktop try it from there it should work

If this works then drag that icon to the .kde/AutoStart folder

again try it there

if all is working then the icon code should be run on startup