[SOLVED] XFCE - Compiz & Emerald an impossibility?

[KitchiRUs]

Hi all,

I've been looking to make my desktop sexy lately. I've been using F16 XFCE spin for about a year now with no issues whatsoever, but I figured may as well make it look flashy with compiz.

But as nice as only compiz looks, I'd like some emerald themes (panel + window border transparency etc.) That would be perfect.

But after looking around for sometime, I found out that emerald isn't in the repos anymore. So I thought I'd install an older version of compiz + emerald from koji. This seemed like a good plan, but one dependency

error: Failed dependencies:
	libboost_serialization-mt.so.1.46.1()(64bit) is needed by compiz-0.9.4-3.fc16.x86_64

I couldn't find over on Koji, and I couldn't find it after some reasonably extensive Googling.

Anyone know of a way to get emerald to work on F16?
Any help will be much appreciated.

You will need to compile it from srpm (post 12).

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=269881

[KitchiRUs]

The link gives the rpm package for emerald. But now I've got another problem... the libboost-serialization packages are already installed, but newer versions.

Can I remove the newer ones and replace them with older ones? Is that safe?
Or is there another way to do this?

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EDIT:
I didn't see the version differences between the rpm of emerald that I had and this src rpm. I installed the latest compiz through yum, and compiled this and installed it. Works perfectly, thanks!

[sameerdhar]

Hi,

I installed xfce on my laptop on fc16 but now the touch pad is not working.??? I have to press the physical button for right or left click.

Regards Sameer

[Salamandra]

Originally Posted by sameerdhar

Hi,

I installed xfce on my laptop on fc16 but now the touch pad is not working.??? I have to press the physical button for right or left click.

Regards Sameer

Look here:

http://fedorasolved.org/Members/khay...earchterm=None

Hope it helps.