[Bug 198125] Compiz 8.2 Cannot be Set as Default WM in Control Center - Crashes and Reverts to kwin

[David Rankin]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198125





--- Comment #2 from David Rankin <drankinatty suddenlinkmail com>  2009-06-29 05:40:55 ---
I don't exactly know which app crashed. I think it is more of a case of compiz
never getting started. (although compiz maybe crashing when the start attempt
occurs)

The situation is this:

When you attempt to set the default WM with: Personal -> Default Applications
-> Window Manager -> Use a different window manager -> compiz

it looks like kde control center attempts to launch compiz at the moment the
selection is made from the dropdown that allows you to choose "Compiz" or
"Compiz custom (create wrapper script....."

as soon as you make the selection, something crashes and generates the error
dialog that says something to the effect of ".. window manager failed to start
reverting to kwin...

So I don't exactly know what is crashing, but something certainly is and this
crash prevents you from ever being able to select Compiz as the default WM.

Like I said above, I using compiz right now without any problems. I just start
it with FusionIcon and it works fine. Of course when kde4 restores the previous
session, compiz is started, but kpager is broken until plasma-desktop is
restarted. Setting compiz as the default WM will evidently fix this, but this
bug prevents being able to test it.

Let me know if you need more info. Thanks!

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