[Intrepid] Compiz got hosed

Jim Smith jim at oz.net
Wed Nov 26 01:53:27 UTC 2008


Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Jim Smith <jim at oz.net> wrote:
>   
>> Somehow I managed to mess up Compiz, by accidently activating something
>> called "Bicubic Filter." It has Gnome completely messed up as everything
>> I click on comes up as a black shape and no way to get into Compizconfig
>> to unclick it. Fortunately I have Xfce on here for just such occasions.
>> I tried deleting the .config files in my home directory, but that
>> doesn't do anything as they seem to be regenerated whenever Gnome
>> starts. There must be a master config file somewhere which can be
>> edited/deleted, I just don't know where. Any advice appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>     
> Hey, I've been there, fixed that!
>
> Compiz settings can be either of 2 places.
>
> Default lately is in the gnome configuration. That's in ~/.gconf.  The
> worst case scenario would be to just rm everything that starts with .g
> , but its probably not necessary :).  If you run gconf-editor, you an
> wipe out that stuff.  In gconf-editor, go to apps then compiz.  You
> can control settings in the obvious way.
>
> It may be your settings are saved in the flat text files if you turned
> off the desktop integration in the ccsm advanced panel.  That's what I
> do.  Then it saves its settings under ~/.config/compiz.
>
> Here's the thing that caught me.  If you wipe out ~/.config/compiz,
> then the startup reverts to use the gnome settings in .gconf.  So you
> need to kill both sets to really feel fresh and clean like a spring
> morning.
>
> The stuff under ~/.compiz is usually just plugins and other stuff you
> built yourself, or it is settings from really old versions of compiz.
>
> Good Luck, HTH.
>
>
>
>   
Ive been looking thru it with Gconf-editor. What a lot of stuff. Do you
remember what exactly I might be looking for. I haven't found anything
referencing "bicubic".

Many thanks for the ideas so far.

Jim

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