a problem with Compiz-Fusion in Gutsy

[Caleb Marcus]

Just go to System>Preferences>Appearance, then to the Visual Effects
tab. Select None from the list, and Compiz will be disabled.
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 01:11 -0500, George E Noon wrote:

> So, Caleb; please tell me, since I seem unable to find out myself --- 
> how do you go about disabling Compiz, once it has been enabled. i 
> understand it ought to (or really should) be obvious - but, hey; i just 
> happen to be unlucky enough to be one who, until this OS gets to feel 
> 'intuitive' to me, feels quite panicky when things don't work just as 
> I'd expect. Heck, I'd've thought I would have 'outgrown' that long 
> before entering my sixtieth year! Go figure!
> Thanks for all your assistance, and I do mean everyone in the community.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~George
> 
> Caleb Marcus wrote:
> > I feel your pain... I'm running without Compiz because of a bug in the 
> > nVidia driver that prevents me from having the cursor rendered in 
> > hardware (the HWCursor option in Xorg.conf) because if I leave 
> > HWCursor on, which is required to run Compiz without glitching, the 
> > cursor will randomly disappear.
> > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 23:46 -0500, 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> 
> >> > <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' 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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