{"id":66,"date":"2013-12-30T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncodenicer.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:14:00","slug":"using-compiz-with-freebsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Using Compiz with FreeBSD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For setting up X server follow instructions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/doc\/en\/articles\/compiz-fusion\/index.html\">here<\/a>. (Long story short, use nvidia driver, add <code>glx<\/code> and <code>extmod<\/code> extensions to <code>xorg.conf<\/code>, and add <code>argb-glx-visuals<\/code> to monitor.)<br>To start compiz don&#8217;t follow their instructions &#8211; rather open gnome configuration editor, browse to <code>\/desktop\/gnome\/session\/required_components<\/code> and change value for <code>windowmanager<\/code> to be <code>compizmanager<\/code> (instead of <code>metacity<\/code>, also make sure there exists <code>\/usr\/local\/share\/applications\/compizmanager.desktop<\/code> (executing <code>compiz-manager<\/code>)).<br>If you don&#8217;t see windows borders after restarting gnome, make sure windows decorations in compiz are enabled (Effects section of compiz settings).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/comment\/3#comment-3\">Update for Mate<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To do equivalent for mate open <code>dconf<\/code> editor, then navigate to <code>\/org\/mate\/session\/required_components<\/code> and there is <code>windowmanager<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For setting up X server follow instructions here. (Long story short, use nvidia driver, add glx and extmod extensions to xorg.conf, and add argb-glx-visuals to monitor.)To start compiz don&#8217;t follow their instructions &#8211; rather open gnome configuration editor, browse to \/desktop\/gnome\/session\/required_components and change value for windowmanager to be compizmanager (instead of metacity, also make sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,6,42],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-compiz","tag-freebsd","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}