I decided to try -173 once again and, strange enough, it seems to work all of a sudden... (Yes, I did reboot after my previous failures.)
Although, this time, I did an 'apt-get remove --purge compiz-core compiz-wrapper' and also noticed that the USE_EMERALD variable had moved (?) to /usr/bin/compiz-decorator. Until now, I had started emerald by setting '/usr/bin/emerald --replace' as window decorator in ccsm (which means that gtk-window-decorator starts first, then, before you'll have had time to start any windows, emerald immediately takes over...
I decided to try -173 once again and, strange enough, it seems to work all of a sudden... (Yes, I did reboot after my previous failures.)
Although, this time, I did an 'apt-get remove --purge compiz-core compiz-wrapper' and also noticed that the USE_EMERALD variable had moved (?) to /usr/bin/ compiz- decorator. Until now, I had started emerald by setting '/usr/bin/emerald --replace' as window decorator in ccsm (which means that gtk-window- decorator starts first, then, before you'll have had time to start any windows, emerald immediately takes over...
Will keep my eyes open for weirdness.