[Ubuntu-BD] Visual effects setting doesn't retain after reboot at Lucid

[~Split_Fire~]

First of all, extremely sorry for the late reply. Actually, I am still busy
with an upcoming deadline and even have to carry on with this problematic
ubuntu-lucid

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Abir Sadik <abir.sadik at gmail.com> wrote:

> This seems to be a common upgrade problem. I found two solutions to this
> 1. enable bluetooth in start up (it worked for some ppl, i dont know why)
>

Yes, my bluetooth is enabled at startup

2. reinstall compiz
>

I didn't even install compiz, for my RAM is only 512 MB. I didn't want to go
with compiz or any other heavy graphics stuffs. To ensure it further, I
tried to remove compiz if I already have it installed somehow, and got the
response as follows:

$ sudo apt-get autoremove compiz
[sudo] password for raze:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package compiz is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.

>
> Do you get any error messages? for example
>
> > Warning: Screen isn't composited. Please run compiz (-fusion) or another
> > compositing manager
> >
> Not exactly, though I got few error messages sometimes, like "Error loading
> the applet clock, do you want to delete it?" with two option buttons --
> 'Delete' and 'Don't delete'. Each time I chose 'Don't delete'. This happened
> for 4-5 times with different messages just after login and it took more than
> 6-7 mins to show the desktop with that error messages! Consequently, my
> ubuntu got much more sluggish and I had to reboot my machine each time to
> get Ubuntu as smoothly functional. That means, problem with compiz.
>


> If the above two dont work, you can manually change compiz setting by
> installing compiz-config (u'll find it in software center)
>

This time I am little bit wondered to see the compiz as installed in
software center, while synaptic previously showed it as not installed!! I
thought software center in lucid just is an alternative of synaptic, but now
it doesn't seem to be. I uninstalled compiz, instead of reinstalling, and
reboot, and now the problem solved; my visual preference retains 'none'
after rebooting as I set it. Should go for reinstallation? Will there be any
problem without compiz?

>
> the other problem, why dont you install ubuntuzilla?
> ubuntuzilla.sourceforge.ne
> If firefox starts at login it must be in the start up menu... i dont know
> why you cant find it.
>

No, I rechecked. There is no firefox or even internet/browser related
applications at startup :) I didn't yet try ubuntuzilla, lets see what
happens. I am very much used to with mozilla, now time to explore some
alternatives.

>
> let me know if this helped.
>

Thanks for all of your efforts. Great help!

>
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:52 PM, ~Split_Fire~ <raptor167 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just switched to Lucid from Jaunty about less than a week. Where Jaunty
> > was fairly good enough, Lucid seems to be somewhat buggy in some cases. I
> > want to keep my visual effect setting as 'None' from Syestem->Preferences
> > option. But each time I restart my machine, the visual effects again set
> > back to 'Extra' and I've to set it manually. Is there any way to fix it?
> > Also peeked through some Ubuntu forums with no luck, now seeking a help.
> >
> > A side question, my ubuntu switch to Firefox each time I log in. I
> checked
> > the Startup Applications from System->Preferences, but couldn't find out
> > the
> > Firefox from the list. I want to get rid of this at startup as well.
> >
> > Thank you all.
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