enabling cube effect

[Daniel Moore]

To get around the choppy video issue I installed VLC media player and
in Settings > Preferences, Expand Video, select Output modules, check
Advanced Options and from the dropdown menu select X11 video output.

No more choppy video with Beryl/Compiz Desktop Effects enabled!



On 7/23/07, Les Gray <lgray at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> On Monday 23 July 2007 21:41:19 Greg wrote:
> > I have been playing around with cube effects but although wobble works and
> > cube appears enabled , how do you get the cube thing to actually work E.G.
> > switch between.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
>
> I had that problem when I tried compiz. It's a known bug (#121986). To get
> things working properly ou need to reset a particular setting in gconf-editor
> (which is sort of similar to Windows registry). Details are here -
> https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compizconfig-settings-manager/+bug/121986
>
> Another fix, in case your window borders go haywire, is to run this in a
> terminal -
>
> compiz --replace -c emerald &
>
> which basically resets the window manager.
>
> All this, plus the fact that video playback using xxmc video output is *very*
> iffy when compiz/beryl are running, made 'Desktop Effects' a non-starter for
> me. :( Maybe next release.
>
> (Although I still enable the Xfce4 compositor when I use that as my window
> manager, even though the video issue is still there.)
>
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