crashy desktop effects

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi John,
On Thursday 13 August 2009 08:35 PM, Skunk Worx wrote:
> On 08/13/2009 08:13 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> On Thursday 13 August 2009 07:12 PM, Skunk Worx wrote:
>>> As nice as it looks, there are a lot of bug reports for ATI users--the
>>> black screen issue and my log out issue--and I would like to take X back
>>> to the point where no desktop effects are enabled.
>>>
>>> How to do this?
>>
>> I think the command is `metacity --replace'.
>
> Thanks for the quick response. This command crashed the desktop and did
> not get rid of the effects (still present on reboot).

Sorry about that, but that used to work for F10. With F11 I have 
switched to XFCE so maybe that is an F11 issue, if you have the time you 
should consider filing a bug report.

> I did find some keys in the files below .gconf and .gconfd that seemed
> compiz-related so I wiped those directories out of my home directory and
> now my display is back to normal.

That's good. :)

-- 
Suvayu

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