I have a feeling part of this is because of issues with Emerald. I can open a theme in Emerald just fine, but when I try to click on the theme to change it, Emerald just turns off and doesn't change my theme.
I've tried to look up various solutions on the forum, but nothing has helped.
This:
Does not do anything after I restarted the X Server.also installed Compiz Fusion and the XFCE4 desktop packages. Had some initial problems with losing the XFCE window decorations, but finally got them back by replacing "emerald --replace &" with "gtk-window-decorator --replace &" in /root/.xinitrc. Also did this in the Compiz Setting Manager - in the Window Decoration configuration dialogue.
I basically a very similar issue to this angry fellow.
This old thread tells me to do this:
However, I don't have Beryl-Manager. Wasn't that the old version of Compiz?By the way, Emerald crashes if you change or edit a theme, to solve it go to: Beryl-Manager(systray icon)>Reload Window Decorator.
The emerald binary in the dotpup was previously 'strip'ed and 'upx'ed, it also crashes with an unpacked binary.
I'm not really sure what else to do. :/
Any ideas are appreciated!