Ubuntu
compiz package

  1. Bug #772486
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 772486

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yota (yota-opensystems) wrote :

This is how I managed to start unity from KDM:

1) aptitude install unity compiz-gnome

apparently unity needs compiz-core to run, but it does not require it on its dependencies and it is not installed by default on a kubuntu-desktop machine.

2) add 'export GDMSESSION="$DESKTOP_SESSION" ' on top of /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession
this is executed by kdm at user's login and fixes the environment variable issue.

This worked perfectly for me and I hope can help all KDE fans to enjoy the brand new, and much discussed, user interface.

By the way can "$DESKTOP_SESSION" be a candidate for a DM independent variable?