I also got Compiz working on XFCE, so now XFCE users won’t feel left out :-) I don’t know whether this is practical or not, as XGL, Xorg and Compiz together weigh in at a hefty 80 megs of RAM (and XFCE is primarily for older computers), but I’m sure I won’t be the only one who will use it.
There is no screenshot as proof. XGL seems to interfere with screen capture. How the heck do people take screenshots of the cube though?
Why should Gnome and KDE users have all the fun?
1. Install XGL as per the instructions (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/Xgl), except…
2. When opening up the new .sh file, follow the instructions for your particular
graphics card on either DE. Instead of the last line, put: "exec /usr/local/bin/xfce4-session".
3. Follow the rest of the instructions for getting XGL going.
4. When setting up Compiz (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/InstallingCompiz), follow the instructions for KDE (i.e. writing a script to start Compiz that you must double-click)
5. At the top of the script, after #!/bin/bash, create a new line. Put "killall xfwm4". Then make a new line directly underneath that, with "sleep 2" (just to be sure that Xfwm is closed by the time Compiz tries to start)
6. Log out and start up the new XGL session. Run the script you created. Congratulations, your DE
can now wobble with the best of ‘em!
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