compiz-fusion: switch from Metacity to Emerald

May 1st, 2008
You can easily change your window manager from Metacity, compiz's default window manager, to the much more promising Emerald.

First you have to install Emerald:

sudo apt-get install emerald

Then you will have to tell compiz to load Emerald instead of Metacity. Edit your ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager configuration file (create it if necessary):

gedit ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager

Add the following line into the file:

USE_EMERALD="yes"

and save it. The next time your restart X you will have Emerald loaded instead of Metacity.

One Response to “compiz-fusion: switch from Metacity to Emerald”

  1. matt Says:
    you would think the gui would provide a way to do this fairly arcane procedure. If it exists I can't find it. The user preferences projects need a lot of work.

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