cako if you installed the plugin locally you need to ensure that the gsettings schema is installed to the systemwide schema install dir or you need to set XDG_DATA_DIRS as appropriate. I seriously don't recommend copying files around for the following reasons: 1. The plugins will have been compiled for the in-tree ABI. This has changed recently and the plugins will not load correctly if the package in ubuntu doesn't have the most up to date ABI version. 2. As you've mentioned yourself, the gsettings schemas need to be installed and then the gsettings binary file needs to be recompiled. If you want to test out the new behavior, my recommendation is to change into the grid/ subdirectory and build the plugin locally. For example: cd plugins/grid mkdir build cd build cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${HOME}/bin -DCOMPIZ_PLUGIN_INSTALL_TYPE=local make install glib-compile-schemas ${HOME}/bin/share/glib-2.0/schemas Then you'll need to add ${HOME}/bin/share to your XDG_DATA_DIRS in your .bashrc . For example: export XDG_DATA_DIRS=${HOME}/bin/share/:${XDG_DATA_DIRS} On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:51 AM, cako