Compiz Not working

atjesse · Post by **atjesse** » Mon May 14, 2012 12:34 pm

Hey all, I am tired trying to make compiz work, reload laods metacity instead of compiz. Tried unsetting it as i read in one of the posts, tried purging and reinstalling it, all same. Am using LMDE 2012 with MATE+ CINNAMON. Any solutions? Basically I'm trying to create a compiz wm session + GNOME do (which I succeeded, but none of the compiz plugins are working!)

Post by **Oscar799** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:07 pm

Moved here by moderator

AlbertP · Post by **AlbertP** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:45 pm

You can't use Compiz with Cinnamon, you know?

dcihon · Post by **dcihon** » Mon May 14, 2012 3:07 pm

Works with LMDE and XFCE.
Has to be turned off for Cinnamon to work I believe.
Correct me if I am wrong.

selittl · Post by **selittl** » Thu May 17, 2012 10:10 am

I, too, cannot get compiz to work in MATE. I have installed CCSM, but nothing works. Is there a secret? Please elucidate.

AlbertP · Post by **AlbertP** » Thu May 17, 2012 2:58 pm

Mate had problems with Compiz at first - please make sure all updates are installed. Or maybe it works better on Mint 13.

selittl · Post by **selittl** » Thu May 17, 2012 3:19 pm

Am using mint 13 and up to date. Compiz is installed as is ccsm.

wndysrf · Post by **wndysrf** » Thu May 17, 2012 3:57 pm

I'm using both Compiz and Gnome-Do on my LMDE vb install using MATE.

There was a conflict with Compiz and Metacity causing high CPU usage which I was able to fix based on this:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=99051

basically, in terminal run mateconf-editor and go to desktop>mate>session>required_components and change the windowmanager from marco to compiz.

I'm not sure if that will solve what problem you are having, but it did bring my CPU usage down to normal and I've had a stable system since.

If this doesn't solve your problem, please describe your symptoms in more detail.

good luck.

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