XFCE & Compiz, no window borders

FrankRizz0 · l33t Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 617

Good afternoon all!

I've recently installed gentoo onto an office computer (I've been away from Gentoo for a very long time) with XFCE4, I installed Compiz from the wiki, started Compiz and I have no window borders. I had this issue before and I just can't remember how to fix this issue. Any help is very much appreciated!

Myu · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 5:32 pm Post subject:

Good afternoon,

You need to emerge emerald in order to get the windows borders right.

FrankRizz0 · l33t Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 617

Like I said previously, I used the gentoo wiki

FrankRizz0 · l33t Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 617

So I did get the window borders, but now my panel is gone :-(

FrankRizz0 · l33t Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 617

Got the panel back (seems when I start conky, which is just a black background, my panel disappears), but now I have no borders

FrankRizz0 · l33t Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 617

So it seems that I needed to add compiz and emerald commands in the autostart tab in settings manager. No idea why that worked over terminal, or what I was doing different but *shrugs.* My next issue is that it doesn't want to work with conky.