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I previously had emerald working with 11.04, as I had compiled from source. This morning, though, I updated a series of packages, and now emerald --replace doesn't work any longer. I know for a fact that it updated the kernel, but I can't seem to find a place where it will tell me what else it updated. (I blindly accepted updates, thinking that they were just minor).

At any rate, I recompiled emerald, and I ran it from the terminal to see if there is something that's going wrong, but when I run emerald --replace, it runs just fine, just doesn't change my theme when I select a new theme from the emerald theme manager. It does, however, report that it is Reloading... when I select a new theme - so it does seem to be running correctly.

Could it be there is something in conflict with it?

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    I've read that this PPA fixes emerald on natty - have you tried this? https://launchpad.net/~malteworld/+archive/compiz – fossfreedom Aug 22 '11 at 19:29
  • Are you using Unity? – RolandiXor Aug 22 '11 at 21:38
  • Emerald isn't supported in Ubuntu. Its quite possible that it will no longer operate. – Thomas Ward Aug 22 '11 at 22:19
  • @fossfreedom: Yes, I was using that, but then I was getting a segfault a while back, which caused me to build from source. That worked until this latest update. – jwir3 Aug 22 '11 at 22:42
  • @Roland: No, I'm using gnome-classic with the panel disabled and Docky + awn. – jwir3 Aug 22 '11 at 22:42
  • @The Evil Phoenix: I'm aware of that. However, I'm also aware that there isn't a replacement yet, so I'm hoping that I can keep my pretty windows until there is a replacement (I'm using the A-New-Hope theme, which is pretty sweet as it comes with an AWN and Docky theme as well). :) Can you recommend a better window decorator? I would be willing to switch. – jwir3 Aug 22 '11 at 22:43
  • @jwir3 In the question, it was mentioned that you could not find where a record of updates is kept. I just thought I'd mention you can open the Ubuntu Software Center, look under the History section in the sidebar and click the Updates tab to see a record of installed updates and when they were installed, in case that helps any. – Knowledge Cube Aug 23 '11 at 04:40
  • @WarriorIng64: Awesome, thanks for that information! – jwir3 Aug 23 '11 at 18:33
  • This question appears to be abandoned and unanswered, could you perhaps add more detail to your question? If this question no longer applies then you can either delete it or answer it yourself if you've solved the problem. Thanks! – Nitin Venkatesh Mar 01 '12 at 17:00

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You rebooted right? If so, use this tutorial: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/get-emerald-to-work-in-ubuntu-1104.html

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  • Hm... I actually was unable to solve this problem. Apparently, emerald is a dead project. I'm a bit disappointed, because I liked the way my windows looked with emerald themes. Do you know of any projects that aren't dead and are like emerald? – jwir3 Oct 06 '11 at 16:45
  • What??? I thought that emerald was actively maintained. Well, I have no idea of any forks. – MiJyn Oct 13 '11 at 18:59
  • Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, [it would be preferable](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8259) to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – jrg Mar 01 '12 at 17:05