<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> perhaps if hda1 is entirely stable, you could generate the installed files list and import it to Synaptic on hda3? Then you would have everything from hda1 with everything you had extra on hda3. Compiz should work then, as long as you don't have something installed that's stopping it working. Think that made sense... hope that helps? Farran On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 21:43 +0000, Neil Greenwood wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Hi Ted, On 21/12/2007, Ted Wager <<A HREF="mailto:ted@trufflesdad.plus.com">ted@trufflesdad.plus.com</A>> wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > > Ted Wager wrote: > > > >> On my spare box hda has three partitions two ext3 linux and a > >> swap.......I have compiz running ok on hda1 with all the extra plugins. > >> I try to run compiz on hda3 but I get the error message... > >> aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity..... > >> I have tried copying over the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and > >> /usr/bin/compiz but it still gives the error message.. > >> Any help appreciated.. > >> I think we need some more info, such as the exact error message (cut'n'paste?), and the contents of the X log (from /var/log/Xorg.log, or a similar filename in that directory). The X log might be a bit too large to post inline or attach to a mail, so maybe using the pastebin (<A HREF="http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/">http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/</A>) would be a good idea. Cofion/Regards, Neil </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>