compiz - Dec 2006 - Compiz ignoring changes in gconf in Opensuse 10.2

Hi, 

I have recently upgraded to Opensuse 10.2 from 10.1
and all the changes that I am making in gconf have no
effect on compiz. I am running compiz as a window
manager in kde and I have followed the instructions
for running compiz in Opensuse 10.2.

However if I change in session manager the preferred
window manager to kwin and then put compiz.desktop in
Autostart directory all the changes in gconf are
reflected by compiz. 

Does anyone now how to fix this so compiz relies on
gconf without putting compiz in autostart directory. 

Thanks

Have a happy new year everyone !!! 

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On Dec 30, 06 19:13:05 -0800, Deni Jelicic wrote:
> I have recently upgraded to Opensuse 10.2 from 10.1
> and all the changes that I am making in gconf have no
> effect on compiz. I am running compiz as a window
> manager in kde and I have followed the instructions
> for running compiz in Opensuse 10.2.
compiz is started with the dbus configuration plugin now when running
kde. Unfortunately, right now there doesn't seem to be a configuration
utility using dbus :-O

I personally think the change has been a bit premature, given that it's
basically a big regression right now. You can try
  compiz --replace gconf
in order to use the gconf configuration plugin again. But be warned, the
intel driver (or Mesa) currently has a bug that renders this unusable.
It should work fine with nvidia and fglrx, though.

So choosing kwin and replacing compiz by Autostart is probably a better
idea right now.
> Does anyone now how to fix this so compiz relies on
> gconf without putting compiz in autostart directory. 
This is AFAIK not supported in kde.
> Have a happy new year everyone !!! 
Same to you :)

Matthias

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>> Does anyone now how to fix this so compiz relies on
>> gconf without putting compiz in autostart directory. 
>>     
>
> This is AFAIK not supported in kde.
>   

You need to set the KDEWM environmental variable
to be a script that you use to start compiz (not compiz
by itself)

eg.  I have a script called compiz-start and it contains
only this line

compiz --replace --indirect-rendering gconf

It works perfectly with KDE as does gconf.