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cpu

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Registered: 2007-02-22

Posts: 68

KDE with compiz or beryl ? Compiz still needs many gnome dependencies?

Hi

I'm going to install new x86_64 arch on my laptop and wondering about installing compiz - I'm using KDE and I have question - does compiz still need so many gnome deps or it's better with this now ? For now on my x86 desktop I use beryl 0.2.1 and no problem here but in the future I'll have to change beryl to compiz so I need to know this gnome-deps thing... anyone uses KDE with compiz ?

Thanks in advance

karmapolice

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Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 113

Re: KDE with compiz or beryl ? Compiz still needs many gnome dependencies?

Which are the so many dependencies are you talking about?

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: KDE with compiz or beryl ? Compiz still needs many gnome dependencies?

Just install compiz-core and the kde decorator. It only requires gconf/gtk2.

FYI: KDE4 is introducing its own composting effects in KWin, so you won't be needing compiz/beryl if you use KDE in a few months

karmapolice

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Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 113

Re: KDE with compiz or beryl ? Compiz still needs many gnome dependencies?

You can even compile compiz without gconf and use the ini plugin.

But will it provide everything that compiz can do??

cpu

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Registered: 2007-02-22

Posts: 68

Re: KDE with compiz or beryl ? Compiz still needs many gnome dependencies?

So it's better to switch from beryl to compiz now or wait for fully merged compiz/beryl ?

cpu

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Registered: 2007-02-22

Posts: 68

Re: KDE with compiz or beryl ? Compiz still needs many gnome dependencies?

Can I use comiz 0.5.0 with beryl-manager ?