Hi, After reading the artcile below I got enthousiatic and I installed the 64 bit version of Opensuse Gnome Live edition on my DV7 HP laptop.
Please see this article: openSUSE 11.2 Gnome edition - Fantastic
The article speaks about “openSUSE 11.2 Emerald furnished with Gnome”. What does that mean ? what is Emerald and how can I get it, if I am not already running it ?
Emerald is a configurable
window decorator (ala window manager) associated with compiz.
Strange… I posted a comment on this just a few seconds ago, what a coincidence.
Anyway, →Emerald is the default window decoration for →Compiz.
Edit: …as cjox already mentioned. He’s a little faster than me. 
Thanks,so this is not the deafult decorator. I understand I have to go to the command line, do emerald --replace, enable the windows decoration plugin, then find the Emerald settings ?
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On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 12:46 +0000, jolato wrote:
> Thanks,so this is not the deafult decorator. I understand I have to go
> to the command line, do emerald --replace, enable the windows decoration
> plugin, then find the Emerald settings ?
You also must be running compiz. In general, I still consider
running compiz to be an advanced thing.
With that said, I prefer compiz to native KDE4 composite features.
There are pages on the wiki with regards to compiz, but I don’t
think I’ve ever been able to get things to work using any of the
plethora of instructions there (but that could be due to other
things I’m doing).
The desktop (ultimately) I’m on right now is running compiz
with KDE 4.2.4 on openSUSE 11.1 (using the kwin decorator).
yes, I am running compiz and have enabled some effects. So I am running a kind of non-Emerald Gnome-Compiz combination of window manager system ? Just my guess
So I am running a kind of non-Emerald Gnome-Compiz combination of window manager system ?
Good guess.
Compiz can be run within pretty much any desktop environment and every window-decorator.