Installing Compiz and Emerald in Backtrack.

[Mafaioz]

Try it and then let us know.

Mod Edit: **** me if it did :P

it worked to install and all. but after i did a reload window management, **** froze. so this isnt 100% on r2 version

[kjtw73]

Mod Edit: **** me if it did :P

it worked to install and all. but after i did a reload window management, **** froze. so this isnt 100% on r2 version

Same result with R2

[Oyukito]

Hi all, my first post

R2 here and everything worked fine, did you install graphic drivers before this?

[Zerocool Djx]

I tried the adding to the startup with editing the rc.local file, but yet this still isn't allowing compiz to start automatically upon start-up. Any suggestions?

[jcharly]

i have a little doubt, when i get into the reload windows manager
my desktop turns blank, and nothing happens ñ.ñ
is it normal?
what do i do?
hope you could help me

[sickness]

Well as I said this guide was made for Backtrack 4 Final, it might require a few more tweaks

[5cardcharlie]

Is there a particular reason why this tutorial has people installing the gnome version of compiz and emerald instead of compiz-kde3 and emerald-kde3?

[dash1b]

I tried the adding to the startup with editing the rc.local file, but yet this still isn't allowing compiz to start automatically upon start-up. Any suggestions?

Try this:

1. remove all of the entries from /etc/rc.local

2. add a simple bash script to your ~/.kde3/Autostart directory.

root@bt~:# nano ~/.kde3/Autostart/start-compiz.sh

Enter the following into the file then save it:

#!/bin/bash

fusion-icon &
sleep 5
emerald &

3. change the permissions on the script

root@bt:# chmod 755 ~/.kde3/Autostart/start-compiz.sh

fusion-icon should force load of compiz with all of the plugins
both programs are sent to the background

works for me with BT4 R2... good luck

[dash1b]

Is there a particular reason why this tutorial has people installing the gnome version of compiz and emerald instead of compiz-kde3 and emerald-kde3?

Can't answer definitively but if I had to guess, probably something about the kde3 version requiring updates to kde3 which might break some things in this distro.

[ohanqwe]

Hi I can't run compiz on R2 either. When I do that my screen turn black and crash. My graphic crad is intel gma 4500 do I need to install drivers?