Enabling Compiz On Linux Mint 13 (MATE)

Enabling Compiz On Linux Mint 13 (MATE) can be a bit of a pain but after a bit of scratching around and testing I've found the following works:

1.  Install Compiz:

   sudo apt-get install compiz compiz-plugins
   compiz-plugins-main python-compizconfig compizconfig-settings-manager
   compiz-plugins-extra

2.  In a terminal type “mateconf-editor”, when the editor opens go to

   /desktop/mate/session/required_components/windowmanager

     and replace "marco" with "compiz".

3.  Open the Compiz Configuration Settings Manager in the Control Center
      and select what compiz-functions you want to activate eg: Window
      Decoration, Move Window & Wobbly Windows at a minimum.

4,  Force Compiz to replace existing composter:

   compiz --replace