[ubuntu-za] Help!

[Jan Greeff]

Well Miles that seems to underscore my point: why have an app at all if 
it messes things up?


On 21/05/2014 11:11, Miles wrote:
> Haha I was told not to fiddle with compiz config because I would mess
> things up. So the ball is in everyone elses courts.
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> On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 10:26 +0200, Jan Greeff wrote:
>> Miles, you and you other young Turks in the community must now please
>> help the old man.
>>
>> My feeling is that somebody in the know should be made aware that
>> Compiz Config default settings wreaks havoc in the latest Ubuntu LTS
>> release. Or is it just me that did something irrational that noboody
>> else in their right young mind would do?
>>
>> Jan
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>>                            Subject:
>> Re: [ubuntu-za] Help!
>>                               Date:
>> Wed, 21 May 2014 08:23:25 +0200
>>                               From:
>> Thomas Fogwill
>> <thomas.fogwill at meraka.org.za>
>>                           Reply-To:
>> Ubuntu South African Local
>> Community
>> <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>                                 To:
>> wikus at cheetah-microsystems.com,
>> Ubuntu South African Local
>> Community
>> <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
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>> On  tty1 (Ctrl-Alt-F1):
>> Â  $ export DISPLAY=:0
>> Â  $ unity-tweak-tool ---reset-unityÂ
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>> (You may need to install unity-tweak-tool first...)
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>> Ctrl-Alt-F7 and everything should be back to default (you may need to
>> restart).
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>> Alternatively, this should do the trick:
>> Â  $Â dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
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>>
>> Ciao
>> T
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>> On 21 May 2014 07:03, Wikus <mazal.wikus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>          On 20/05/2014 21:56, Jan Greeff wrote:
>>                  Hi there Miles and the others, many thanks. I called
>>                  my nephew in Pretoria who is also quite expert in
>>                  Ubuntu and we had to reset Unity via ctrl/alt/f1, now
>>                  everything is back to normal. My Unity window
>>                  behaviour is also fixed up. Great!
>>                  
>>                  
>>          Morning Jan ,
>>          
>>          For reference , can you give us the command/s that you ran
>>          after going to ctrl+alt+F1 to reset Unity.
>>          
>>          Thanx
>>          
>>          - Wikus
>>          
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