noob Compiz/Emerald Question

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I am running an install from openSuse live CD. From the one click installer I have intalled everything that said compiz or emerald. I can launch the Emerald Theme Manager, but I can’t change my theme. There is no apply button and when I click a theme it does nothing. I tried going into ccsm and typing emerald in the window decorator space. I have restarted my system since then. Anycase I know its a noob question, but if anyone would like to tell me how to do the obvious it would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

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Open a terminal (Konsole) and type;

emarald --replace &

Now open emerald and change to the window decorator you want.

To start this automatically when you start your PC add a file to ~/home/yourname/.kde/Autostart

You get there by clicking on ‘view’ in the taskbar on top and selecting: ‘show hidden files’.
To make such a file open kwrite and type:

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

save and you are done ! :slight_smile:

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Thanks for your reply :slight_smile:

It is not working for me. I go to konsole and type what you say. I get a [1] followed by a PID. It returns to a new line in bash. Then when I go into emerald and slect a theme, the terminal says “Reloading…” but never does anything and does not return a new line.

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I have since tried reinstalling compiz fusion and emerald. I now can enable emerald, but when it has screwed up compiz. Whenever I try to use compiz, the task bar at teh top of the window disappears and the focus feature does not work. Compiz and emerald are up to date.