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Topic: How to install Emerald (Compiz) in Debian Squeeze?

Anyone had success with this? I am forced to use compiz but would like to be able to change the window decorations etc.

Thanks.

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Re: How to install Emerald (Compiz) in Debian Squeeze?

Have you tried using compiz-gtk and the Decoration plugin instead?

http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Decoration

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Re: How to install Emerald (Compiz) in Debian Squeeze?

I have, to not much success.
I ended up using a reaaallly old version from the repository of shame (which was dead in 2008 or something like that).
Anyways, it works, so I'm happy haha.

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Re: How to install Emerald (Compiz) in Debian Squeeze?

I did as hhh explained in the post below and it works perfectly.
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/80904/#p80904

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  • From: Ontario, Canada
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Re: How to install Emerald (Compiz) in Debian Squeeze?

huh, seems my version is actually newer than that (0.7.9 versus 0.7.2)
weird.

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Re: How to install Emerald (Compiz) in Debian Squeeze?

Here's version 0.8.4 (i386) http://xntek.com/emerald-debian/

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Re: How to install Emerald (Compiz) in Debian Squeeze?

I'm using 64bit, which is why there is the issue haha.

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Re: How to install Emerald (Compiz) in Debian Squeeze?

@FSM, I'm not sure what the deal with Emerald is. It's not in the Debian packages anywhere, and the version in the Emerald ppa and the Ubuntu packages is also 7.2. I couldn't find an emerald-themes package newer than, what, Feisty? This link has a 64bit package (at the bottom, "Download Emerald)...
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/emerald

I also found these source packages...
http://releases.compiz-fusion.org/components/emerald/

I found these more recent emereld-theme debs, I have no idea if they're any different from the other package...
http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main … ld-themes/

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Re: How to install Emerald (Compiz) in Debian Squeeze?

its weird, the packages, and even mints themes, are only in the .7's. whereas the source goes to .84 or something like that.
For how popular compiz is, especially on ubuntu, you'd think it'd be easy to find a package.

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