Right, as said, this is a plain Ubuntu install, with Gnome, and XFCE installed on top of it, so there's both. Gnome is using compiz, and xfce is using xfwm4. So i have no idea what is the abowe apt-cache command is good for, it is obviously saying, compiz is installed:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 && apt-cache policy compiz compiz: Installed: 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu2.1 Candidate: 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu2.1 Version table: *** 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu2.1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-proposed/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages but it is NOT runnin in a xfce session. xfce is using xfwm4. ps -ef | grep xfwm4 bsh 2444 2308 0 22:29 ? 00:00:02 xfwm4 --sm-client-id 268eb3384-bbc8-4fc7-b9b7-9a76002991c1 --display :0.0 I think I couldn't enable desktop compositing under with the xfce app under xfce. if i wasn't using the xfcm window manager. Hope this helps. -- Transparency problems with xfdesktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325662 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs