Compiz on Fedora 18 with MATE

People keep saying that Compiz is dead. Compiz is not dead. You can still install it on Fedora with MATE, XFCE, LXDE, etc.

I made it fairly straight forward, just copy/paste the commands in a terminal and run them.

For MATE:

XFCE:

LXDE:

One thing you will notice is that Compiz will not start automatically. You can change that if you want in your settings. You should be able to run Compiz in MATE by going into Applications >> System Tools >> Compiz Fusion Icon. That starts Compiz in MATE. The process should be similar for XFCE. To configure Compiz, go to System >> Preferences >> CompizConfig Settings Manager. You should see the Emerald controls in there too.

To make it look a little bit like the previous versions of Fedora that used Gnome 2 and Compiz, I included an Emerald theme: Clearlooks 2. Looks neat, and for me, I can easily tell if I am running Compiz or not. (I run the regular Clearlooks without Compiz.)

http://fedorafiles.yolasite.com/reso...-blend.emerald

Once downloaded, run it, and Emerald should pop up with the new theme installed, double click it to apply it.

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Major Bug Fix

Now, with wobbly windows running, you can drag a window up to the panel, and it will not zing under the panel. The quick fix for this was to right click on the program on the taskbar and select "move to desktop X"

Glad that issue was addressed. :D