Another question-- Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

[Fritz Hudnut]

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> Hi Fritz!
>> you can run a command from a terminal and then add *&disown* after the
>> command to disown it from the terminal.  Then if you close the terminal
>> the program will still be running.  If you don't disown the program from
>> that terminal it will close when the terminal closes.
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>> feel free to test it with something simple, like leafpad to make it
>> clear the window closes when you close the terminal, or not (if you add
>> &disown).
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>> compton -b   makes it do the same thing as disowning it (basically)...
>> it runs compton in the *b*ackground
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>> I'd highly suggest using compton over xcompmgr, since it is in active
>> development and has fixed some of the bugs in xcompmgr.
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> @Israel, et al:

Another technical question came to mind on this "compton &disown" . . .
besides wondering if there is a "sudo" in front of any of these commands.
And that is, since I am running XFCE, which has its own compositing
manager, and then possibly LXDE, which does not . . . if I run this
"compton" command while in LXDE, will that end if I log out of the session
and then log back into XFCE?  Or would I need to do a restart to "bust
out'a Compton"?  Or, I'd have to run another command to "stop compton"???
"quit compton" ???  "compton stop what u r doing"??

Just wondering because when I was messing around in Openbox I right clicked
on the drop down menu for "window managers" and I then picked the other
option than where it was by default, which was something like "WFwm"??? and
when I did that . . . no more right click drop down menu, couldn't do
anything???  I think I had to shut down, and then on reboot, checking back
in OB and the original wm was back to what it was?? OBwm???--neither one
seemed to have compositing on the dock window.

In other words, on the XFCE side, window compositing is working fine as far
as getting rid of the cairo dock "shadow" . . . so would hanging with
"Compton" be messing with other window managing "municipalities" like the
busy rat from XFCE trying to go about their business?  Or, that wouldn't
matter, once the "compton -b" command is run, it's going no matter which DE
session its in or even if restarted, but the OGs from Compton would help
out with the XFCE compositing functions (for a small cut of the profits,
etc).

Or, I would have to run "compton &disown" each time I log into an LXDE
session?

Thanks again,

F
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