Disable Desktop Effects from terminal

oldman talbotscott at cox.net
Sat Feb 24 19:31:29 UTC 2007


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Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> oldman wrote:
>> redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I run my FC6 on a headless computer and connect to it via vnc. After
>>> upgrading it's ram and connecting to it, something changed and the
>>> windows had no bars to move them around. I realized that Desktop Effects
>>> were enable and I couldn't disable it.
> 
>> 	If you run it headless, do you really need to have compiz on the
>> machine at all?
>>
>> rpm -e compiz
>>
>> for that matter you might as well get rid of the entire x windows system
>>
>> yum groupremove 'GNOME Desktop Environment'
>>
>> or kde if that is what you have or twm or whatever
>>
> The OP is connecting using VNC. So he needs a desktop and at least
> part of X. Even if you are connecting using ssh instead of VNC, you
> will need the X libraries if you want to run X based programs and
> have them displayed on the local machine. If you are running xvnc as
> the X server on a headless machine, you don't need a video card.
> 
> Mikkel
	Thanks for the info Mikkel.  Haven't done any networking myself, though
as I just got a second computer and router I am looking into it.  I
figure I'll start with samba (it already has XP and only a 30GB HD so I
don't want to dual boot right away)then move on to ssh, nfs, vnc etc. etc.

Scott
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