Turning off compiz(opengl)
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Hello,
at the beginning I installed cairo-dock. It asked me to turn on opengl so I agreed. Unfortunately Trisquel became more unstable (it sometimes freezez). I removed cairo-dock, but the opengl didn't turn off. I tried to change it with:
metacity --replace
and installing "compiz-fusion" then selecting the metacity window manager but without any result. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Why don't you just remove compiz it is mostly broken
Because I'm afraid that all graphic environment will break down.
I think that I should turn it off before removing it.
You should not worry that much. :-)
If you really want to avoid any potential problem while removing Compiz, you can follow those steps:
- Ctrl+Alt+F1 (open a real terminal)
- Log in
- sudo service gdm stop (stops anything graphical that is running)
- sudo apt-get remove compiz (removes Compiz)
- sudo service gdm start (start the graphical login manager)
Well, I did it but it didn't work. Compiz was removed, but for example shadow near every window didn't disappear.
I've reinstalled whole system and now it's ok.
But I'm a little afraid of installing cairo-dock :)
Thanks for your help.
On 04/06/2012 12:50, name at domain wrote:
> Well, I did it but it didn't work. Compiz was removed, but for example
> shadow near every window didn't disappear.
Those are the window manager's effects. Metacity has a setting to do its
own compositing and one of the things it does is add a shadow around
windows.
> I've reinstalled whole system and now it's ok.
>
> But I'm a little afraid of installing cairo-dock :)
> Thanks for your help.
>
In case it happens again, here are the steps to remove Metacity
compositing/effects:
1. Install "gconf-editor" if it is not there
2. Run "gconf-editor"
3a. Set /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager to False ("Determines
whether Metacity is a compositing manager.")
3b. Or, just set /apps/metacity/general/compositor_effects to False
("Determines if compositor-related effects are enabled or not. More
specifically, it disables the shadows below windows, the support for
windows opacity and the windows previews in the alt+tab window switcher.
It does not have any effect if compositing_manager is disabled.")
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Morne Alberts
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