I've been Googling this issue, and can't seem to find a solution that works for my machine. I installed Lubuntu 10.10 on a Thinkpad R40. The only issue I've been having with the LXDE environment is that I can't seem to get Compiz to work properly.
I've installed Compiz, its settings manager, the fusion icon, and the Emerald window decorator. After using the fusion icon to make Compiz my window manager and Emerald my decorator, I run this in the terminal:
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compiz --replace
When I do this, the window borders disappear and I get a strange terminal window that pops up in the top left hand portion of the screen, and doesn't receive any input from my keyboard. It'll go away when I hit CTRL+C to kill the Compiz command.
Also, I generated xorg.conf (I understand 10.10 doesn't include it by default anymore?) via the command:
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sudo Xorg -configure
At the suggestion of a Compiz thread I found, I edited all values for all instances of "Depth" in the "Screen" section to be 24. This apparently worked for quite a few other people, but not quite for me. Is there another way to make sure I'm forcing 24 bit mode?
One last note: the graphics card in the laptop, as reported by Lubuntu, is an ATI Radeon Mobility 7500. I had the regular Gnome version of Ubuntu on it and the effects ran quite smooth for it being an older laptop, so that gives me hope that I can get this working.
Any help on this one is much appreciated, I love my Compiz!