[Hardy] - How do I disable Compositing? [FIXED]

[John Toliver]

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 17:37 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 11:15 -0400, John Toliver wrote:
> > I did this first.  Visual effects are disabled however I still have
> > the black shadows and attempt at fading around windows that came
> > whenever I manually started xcompmgr -cCfF.  I really wouldn't mind
> > but it screws around with video playback
> 
> Hmmm, sorry, no idea then, I haven't seen this issue.
> 
> 

I hate it when I go to the trouble of creating a post hoping something
I've found will benefit the community, only to find it was a dumb
mistake I might have made.

I went digging around in gconf-editor and did a search for anything
having to do with composit*.  Sure enough, metacity has a compositer
feature that can only be turned on through gconf-editor.  I unchecked
this option and my system seemed to freeze but the shadowing effect
disapeared.  I was happy I found the problem but aggravated as I'm in
the middle of a long synaptic download.  Anyway long story short, I did
Alt-f2 and did "metacity --replace" and the system returned.  Woohoo
fixed it!

Thanks for taking the time to read my request for help....

maybe after a while, I will have learned enough to be useful on the
list :-)

Patience yields far greater results than brute force or rage ever could
so relax......it's just life !!!
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