compis: emerald theme cant be activated, title bar is gone

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hi,
i am pretty new in using linux…
i’ve got opensuse 11 with kde 4.1 running on a dell latitude d420 with intel graphic chip onboard. compiz is installed as well as the emerald theme manager, both recently and updated in latest version.
when i right-click on the fusion-icon in my system tray in the panel and select compiz as window manager the title of the windows is gone and if i then open emerald to activate the theme i wanna use, nothing happens…
i googelt quite a lot but all the advice was to install the nvidia driver coorectly (which i don’t have because it’s intel I am using) or the reinstall compiz / emerald from an actual reposity or redoing the settings, which when i follow the advice does not bring any solution in my case.
under window decoration emerald --replace is set.
so my questions are:

  1. how do i get the main title bar of my windows back using compiz?
  2. how can activate an emerald theme because clicking on it and close doesn’t work?

thanks!
oliver

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In fusion-icon set “Select Window Decorator” to Emerald.

Press Alt+F2 and type “emerald --replace” without quotes.

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thx freedguy,
tried this several times before but it doesn’t work.
as i said “emerald --replace” is said and applying it again doesn’t change my prob. of course emerald is set active in the fusion-icon.
any more suggestions?
oliver

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Is “compiz-kde4” installed?

Do you see any errors when running “emerald --replace” in konsole?

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heyho,
yeah, thx, it says “symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so.22: undefined symbol: g_dgettext”
but when i check the package “libwnck-1-22” in yast it is installed, and even if i reinstall it, it doesn’t help?!
what to do?
oliver

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Can you see any libwnck stuff in /usr/lib/?

For example, if there is something like libwnck-1.so.18 just symlink it to the missing library: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so.18 /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so.22

If it doesn’t work add this repo and update both compiz and emerald: Index of /repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_11.0_KDE4_Factory

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hej freedguy,
thanks fpr the hint you gave me, but there’s is libwnck-1.so.22 resp. libwnck-1.so.22.3.13 in /usr/lib/

anyway, i updated compiz and emerald from the repository you have posted… the result stays the same:

emerald: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so.22: undefined symbol: g_dgettext

what does this mean?
thx,
oliver

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The only solution i’m left with is uninstall all compiz and emerald packages, add this repo and install “compiz-git-all” Index of /repositories/home:/cyberorg/openSUSE_11.0

This will install unstable compiz and emerald but it just works. You wont get the problems you’re getting now, most likely.

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tried this - and guess what happened :frowning:

the same problems remains.

i’ve got no clue, maybe it is kde4.1.x, maybe just me or some other packages… maybe it’s a sign not to waste system resources for playing around with compiz^^

thanks a lot for your help freedguy but i will wait and try it again when there is an update that (perhaps) even wants to work with my laptop.
anyway, it’s nice to get help here so that i don’t feel totally lost in the linux universe!

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Umm…try this one last thing.

Go to your home directory and rename .kde4 and .compiz folders to .kde4.old and .compiz.old respectively (they are hidden folders), logout and login back and see if any miracle happens :slight_smile:

Anyways its been nice talking to you, Oliver :slight_smile: