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#1

Hey guys!

I am having some trouble with OpenSUSE 11.0
Everything seems to work just fine except one little thing. I have changed the Theme editor and have tried to use Emerald Theme Manager but the theme i have chosen only appears when i run emerald --replace in a terminal. If i kill the process i have manually started or close the terminal window i lose all window decorations. Obviously i need to make that process run on startup but i don’t know how. Can anyone help or redirect me to an appropriate thread? (first time using the forum).

Thanks in advance for your time :slight_smile:

#2

sorry for double posting but i didn’t see an “edit” button anywhere. :stuck_out_tongue:

I tried that:

If you are using KDE go to ~/home/yourname/.kde/Autostart and add a file like this:

Code:

#! /bin/sh
sleep 5
emerald --replace ccp &

This should start emerald when you start KDE.
Make sure you select compiz & emerald in the fusion -icon options.

I am using KDE4 so i used the /home/<name>/.kde4/Autostart directory but when i rebooted the system i got a message that i needed to specify which application should this file be treated with.

What am i missing here? :frowning:

#3

That’s right in KDE4.0 it does not seem to work, I get the same message. Don’t know why KDE4.0 would not recognise it as such. Maybe make it executable with: chmod +x emerald

#4

I actually was able to solve the problem by performing in a terminal the following:
echo “USE_EMERALD=yes” >> ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager
as a simple user.

#5

If I understand your problem well,

I think yo make Emerald work when you start your computer in (KDE):

  1. if the compiz did’t work when the KDE boot:

    >> for [KDE3.x] go to (KDE Control Center) -> KDE Components -> Session Manager -> compiz

    >> and for [KDE4] (KDE Configure Desktop) -> Advanced -> Session Manager -> Window Manager -> Compiz

  2. after that we need Emerald work:
    go to (ccsm) → decoration → commandline write → (emerald --replace)

  3. and as a normal user write this command:

echo "USE_EMERALD=yes" >> ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager

I hope I understand what you need.