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Oh, I forgot to link. Nice work, partner

I have some further good news: ShadowKyogre wants to host the .debs on his/her website! I'll email them tomorrow and they should be online not much later. I'll post a link and edit the guide when it's up!

General Options > Commands > Commands > Command line X to "compiz-boxmenu"

General Options > Commands > Key bindings > Run command X to "<Control>space" Optional

Viewport Switcher > Desktop-based Viewport Switching > Plugin for initiate action to "commands"

    Viewport Switcher > Desktop-based Viewport Switching > Action name for initiate to "run_commandX_key"

    Viewport Switcher > Desktop-based Viewport Switching > Initiate Plugin Action to "button 3" (this can be another button, for example button 2 for middle-click)

VastOne wrote:

Progress report

This step should be added to the How To

$ sudo dpkg -i compiz-boxmenu_1.0_all.deb

That part is still to be edited, since the .debs aren't hosted yet. I'll edit it after your problems are solved.

VastOnce wrote:

Question - When you get to the tweak the compizconfig-settings-manager/ccsm section, should that be done in your current DE or should you login to the new Compiz DE to do it?

Last - Logging into the Compiz Standalone,  I have no desktop, just a black screen after following these steps.. I have not done the ccsm tweaks yet, but I do not think that will be relevant...

You can do that either way. I think most users who follow this guide will prefer doing it from whatever DE they have going at the moment. If you decide to do it from Compiz, be sure to add ccsm, a panel, gmrun and perhaps a terminator in the autostart file so you have something to start with. If you don't do this, you'll be greeted by just a black screen and a mouse pointer. I'll get to that below..

VastOne wrote:

Finally, I think it may be good to number your steps in this How To, but that is just me...

I can do that, but isn't it clear enough at the moment?

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VastOne wrote:

Now that you have it installed, you have to tweak some settings in compizconfig-settings-manager/ccsm to have it open when you right-click on the desktop only:

General Options > Commands > Commands > Command line X to "compiz-boxmenu"

      Should this include the  "   " or just be compiz-boxmenu?

I don't follow you here...? You just have to type compiz-boxmenu on a random command line - I prefer the last one.

VastOne wrote:

General Options > Commands > Key bindings > Run command X to "<Control>space" Optional

Done - Need to stress to Enable Commands box is ticked

I'll edit the guide!

VastOne wrote:

Viewport Switcher > Desktop-based Viewport Switching > Plugin for initiate action to "commands"

    Viewport Switcher > Desktop-based Viewport Switching > Action name for initiate to "run_commandX_key"

    Viewport Switcher > Desktop-based Viewport Switching > Initiate Plugin Action to "button 3" (this can be another button, for example button 2 for middle-click)

Same question and request..  Are the quotes "   "  needed and make sure that Enable Viewport Switcher is ticked

Oooh.. you meant the quotes! No, no quotes are needed to do this!

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VastOne wrote:

Everything done in ccsm, made sure everything was followed exactly, and I have no desktop... just a black screen and a mouse..  no right click, nada..

I have to tty1 and kill gdm to restart...

Willing to assist in whatever is needed..

Firstly, did you run the compiz-check script? What was the outcome?

Secondly, can you check if you have the relevant files installed in the correct directories?

• /usr/bin/compiz-alone-session

• /usr/bin/xdg-autostart

• /usr/share/xsessions/compiz-alone.desktop

Also, did you copy the autostart script from /etc/xdg/compiz/autostart.sh to ~/.config/compiz/autostart.sh? Did you make it executable? Did you add your own applications to it?

Last thing to check: What does your /usr/bin/compiz-alone-session look like? Please post the file here so I can check it for errors.

#!/bin/sh

# Clean up after GDM
xprop -root -remove _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS \
      -remove _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES \
      -remove _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP 2> /dev/null

AUTOSTART="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME/.config"}/compiz/autostart.sh"
GLOBALAUTOSTART="/etc/xdg/compiz/autostart.sh"

if test -r $AUTOSTART; then
    . $AUTOSTART
else
    . $GLOBALAUTOSTART
fi

exec /usr/bin/compiz "$@" ccp

#if test -r /usr/bin/fusion-icon; then
#    exec /usr/bin/fusion-icon
#elif test -r /usr/bin/compiz-decorator; then
#    exec /usr/bin/compiz-decorator "$@" ccp
#elif test -r /usr/bin/compiz; then
#    exec /usr/bin/compiz "$@" ccp
#elif test -r /usr/bin/compiz-09; then
#    exec /usr/bin/compiz-09 "$@" ccp
#elif test -r /usr/bin/compiz-git;then
#    exec /usr/bin/compiz-git "$@" ccp
#else
#    echo "Error: No compiz executables found."
#    exit 1
#fi

Glad you got the session going

Now, for the menu. Instead of using X, I'll use command line 20 instead. Remember, all without " " quotes!

• General Options > Commands > Commands > Command line 20 to "compiz-boxmenu"

• General Options > Commands > Key bindings > Run command 20 to "<Control>space" Optional

• Viewport Switcher > Desktop-based Viewport Switching > Plugin for initiate action to "commands"

• Viewport Switcher > Desktop-based Viewport Switching > Action name for initiate to "run_command20_key"

• Viewport Switcher > Desktop-based Viewport Switching > Initiate Plugin Action to "button 3" (this can be another button, for example button 2 for middle-click)

No go on the compiz-boxmenu

I can run it from terminal, so it is functional...

There must be something else in ccsm that is not functioning or I do not have turned on