F9: Desktop Effect and Compiz: How to manually disable it?
Dan Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Tue Oct 21 19:31:07 UTC 2008
I have enabled 'Desktop Effects' (Compiz) and tried it out
and it looks pretty cool. I was able to logout and log back
in, everything is fine.
Next, I used the Compiz Configuration Tool (cscm), added
a few more "bells and whistles", and I did not get any immediate
changes after closing the cscm dialog window. But I was curious
about emerald, so I used the command-line command for emerald
and cool - I had emerald window wraps!
Then
I logged off and logged back in - and got the dreaded windows
white screen of death! Rats. There was no windows cursors
and nothing seemed to work (mouse clicks and random keystrokes)
until I hit ALT-S - and the mouse cursor popped in - but still, the
screen stayed white.
I hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and the window logged out and the
GUI login screen appeared.
Next, I logged in as a different user that did not have desktop
effects (Compiz) enabled, so everything was fine.
My question is, is there a command-line command or can
I manually disable Desktop-Effects (Compiz) for that user
where it failed (since obviously I cannot use the the user's
desktop window to disable desktop-effects)? I would like
to restore this user (it is not mine!) to a sane state and try a
temporary user to resolve this problem for later.
I searched everywhere for a solution and even posted
my problem on Compiz's Forum waiting for a resolution,
but I wanted to post this specific request here seeking the
answer to manually disable the desktop-effects.
Thanks!
Dan
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