Dissable and Enable Compiz help

[mikedmor]

Hi im working on making it so that when ever i start one of my games using Wine that all the compiz effects are turned off then when the game closes they automatically turn back on. I did a little research to find the commands to do this and found this:

Code:

sudo killall avant-window-navigator
killall compiz.real
xfwm4

#and to restart Engage
engage -b 70707099 -R 1 -Z 2 -d 0.32 -i 1 -I 1 -T

My question is how do i make this code work when i start up a certain wine App and then when the app closes make the other command work to get my effects working again?

-Mike

[James McKenzie]

mikedmor wrote:

Hi im working on making it so that when ever i start one of my games using Wine that all the compiz effects are turned off then when the game closes they automatically turn back on. I did a little research to find the commands to do this and found this:

Code:

sudo killall avant-window-navigator
killall compiz.real
xfwm4

#and to restart Engage
engage -b 70707099 -R 1 -Z 2 -d 0.32 -i 1 -I 1 -T

My question is how do i make this code work when i start up a certain wine App and then when the app closes make the other command work to get my effects working again?

-Mike

Use a UNIX script to run the program and point the menu item at the
script. Since this is specific to your Linux distribution and windows
manager, I would ask in their support forums how to do this.

James McKenzie

[mikedmor]

isnt this the support forums?

And im using Ubuntu 8.10

[James McKenzie]

mikedmor wrote:

isnt this the support forums?

And im using Ubuntu 8.10

What you would have to do is edit the menu item within Gnome/KDE to call
a UNIX script vice calling wine directly. I don't know how to do this,
that is why I recommended visiting your Linux Distribution support
pages. It is possible that someone else here can help. However,
compliz issues are technically off-topic here per the moderators. Would
it be possible to see what you can find on the Ubuntu forums as far as
editing menu items?

James McKenzie

[mikedmor]

well thats where i went to first for help cause i figured they would know more about it. But my post has not been answered by anyone after two days. so i kinda gave up...

[James McKenzie]

mikedmor wrote:

well thats where i went to first for help cause i figured they would know more about it. But my post has not been answered by anyone after two days. so i kinda gave up...

Ouch! At this point all I can provide for help is to use Google and see
if you can find something on how to call a script from a menu item in
Ubuntu. My knowledge of that distribution is very limited as I only
used it as a live boot CD a long time ago (pre 7.0 days I think.) My
experience is more along RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and I've been away from
them for a while (Fedora 4 is the last distribution I installed and I do
have Fed 9 disks here, but I don't have the time to load them.)

Good luck and maybe someone else here will be able to provide more
assistance.

James McKenzie

[Daemon]

If you want to do it the manual way install Fusion-icon and add it to your session startup to switch window managers easily.

[mikedmor]

no. i already have the command to do it. i just need to know how to link it all together.

i just need to know what im suppose to do with the code (step by step, im new to this) and how do i tell the shortcut to run it? maybe i can have it run then have the code wait till the app closes then it runs a close script that tells it to restart Compiz?

[Daemon]

You should look over at the programming section of the ubuforums. That might help you get pointed in the right direction-> Programming