a problem with Compiz-Fusion in Gutsy --- Correction

George E Noon george.noon at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 10 04:59:05 GMT 2007


George E Noon wrote:
> Cam Cope wrote:
>   
>> On Nov 9, 2007 2:43 AM, George E Noon <george.noon at yahoo.com 
>> <mailto:george.noon at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi, everyone,
>>        I've gotten upgraded to Gutsy, on Wed; and
>>     I've been kind of experimenting with the newness of its features
>>     --- and
>>     have been very pleased, so far.
>>        That is until i began experimenting with Compiz-Fusion: not
>>     sure at
>>     all what I enabled or set wrong, but now, using Big Wall - cube not
>>     enabled, whenever i go & switch desktops, Both my Taskbars, upper &
>>     lower, vanish and it seems so far i have only been able to get 'em
>>     back
>>     by either restarting, sort of like WinXP -- or using Alt + Tab to get
>>     back to desktop 1.
>>        What I want to know is - is there a keyboard shortcut or key combo
>>     that will restore them, or a setting to prevent losing them.?.
>>        If i can get back to my System settings, I could return to the
>>     defaults until I get smartened-up on what' what with this new
>>     toy....
>>        Thanks, in advance for any & all help.
>>     ~~~~~~~~George E Noon
>>
>>
>> Ctrl + alt + left/right arrow should move you around. I don't know how 
>> to fix your menu issue however.
>> -Cam
>>     
> Actually, I've found that 'Ctrl + alt + left/right arrow' does nothing, 
> but, oddly enough, 'LShift + LAlt + 1' 
That should be 'UpArrow' -- not '1' ~~~~ Sorry, must be tired: stupid,
tired finger error (though it's really the brain & not the fingers that's
tired...... ~~~G E Noon
> reduces all opn windows to a size 
> so all are visible on-screen at once; now, while still holding the 
> LShift + LAlt' if I hit either the Left or Right Arrow keys,  it shifts 
> to the noxt window to the Left or Right. Kinda neat; but, i still cannot 
> access my other desktops  and can not bring back my Taskbars or the 
> Menus ---- unless I reboot each time: because whenever I minimize or 
> close an open window, the Taskbars and menus go away as 
> well.................
> I really hope someone can offer a solution to this one; as it's really 
> irritating the willies out of me......... Perhaps, after my next reboot, 
> i just no\eed to disable the Compiz effects.... I'd really rather not, 
> though.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~George
>
>
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