Emerald on 11.1

**UnfouOnline** · 18-Dec-2008, 16:28

I installed successfully compiz-gnome and all its dependencies, it works well except emerald, the window decorator. When i type

Code:

emerald --replace

the decorations disappear and nothing is written in the terminal, i have to go back to gtk.
I'm running x86_64, all the compiz rpms come from the XGL repo.
Any ideas?

**Wrath5000** · 18-Dec-2008, 22:00

I'm wondering the same thing for KDE 4 and Compiz/Emerald...

**suskewiet** · 19-Dec-2008, 01:53

I had the same problem with emerald from suse repos. I tried emerald from compiz repos Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE and those do work. However compiz is very buggy in my version. It often falls back to metacity...

**Herbster0815** · 19-Dec-2008, 02:22

Hi,

the same here with KDE 3.5. and Nividia 8800GTS. Compiz doesn't work at all.
I also tried this one: openSUSE 11.1 Compiz & NOMAD (xrdp) | Ben Kevan's Blog, but it does nothing.

**Guilo** · 19-Dec-2008, 05:13

Hi !

The same here with KDE4 and 11.1

emerald --replace doesn't work

I have made some researches on the internet and I found that I had to go to kcontrol->advanced tab->session manager and choose between kwin and emerald but there isn't such a choice in that tab.

Thanks

**suskewiet** · 19-Dec-2008, 09:36

I followed the link openSUSE 11.1 Compiz & NOMAD (xrdp) | Ben Kevan's Blog as you said and now compiz runs much better. No bugs until now. However I can't get emerald to work with this version of compiz. I also tried to install emerald from the compiz repo to use with compiz from the XGL repo but no success...

**suskewiet** · 20-Dec-2008, 03:26

Update got emerald back by using emerald packages from standard opensuse repositories. Now got a working compiz and emerald

. Turned of the compiz repos and never going to update compiz because now it works and I want to keep it that way.

**SchroedingerHepcat** · 20-Dec-2008, 23:36

Just to confirm, I had the issue of emerald not loading. However, after reverting emerald to the version in the original opensuse 11.1 repository, it worked. I had installed the version from the X11

GL repository, where I got a working version of compiz.

Thanks for the help, suskewiet!

**Wrath5000** · 24-Dec-2008, 11:13

I ended up removing all traces of Compiz and Emerald, clearing out my Compiz settings, and reinstalling successfully via 1-click install; however, while Compiz works now, Emerald still does not.

**djechelon** · 24-Dec-2008, 14:16

On 11.0 I was able to enable Compiz+Emerald by going into Desktop Management\Default apps\Window Manager and selecting Compiz.

Now I can't see window decorations. I can't start Emerald nor rotate the cube or whatever.

I have an ASUS G71V with nVidia 9700M GT with proper drivers installed. glxgears works fine.