Reinstall compiz 12.04

Note how the text, folders and the plus signs left of the folders are somewhat blurred. In this case, the normal state is after opening the window. Blur happens on lost focus, and gets normal again whenever something is redrawn. This applies to anything that is drawn. Before you restart your computer check and make sure all setting are working properly.

How to add compiz and compiz fusion icon to startup 8. Now you are in the Autostart file, add: compiz --replace fusion-icon below the last entry, and reboot. Extra Settings in Desktop Cube Plugin 1. The picture need to be png, jpg or svg format. Click on "Appearance" at the top of the window, the first option is to change the top and bottom color of the Cube.

The Skydome is a background for the virtual space in which the cube is located it can be seen when the cube is zoomed out, like when it is being rotated with the mouse. Click on "Skydome" in that window and you can set an image for Skydome, select "Render Skydome" and "Animate Skydome" for a very nice background and effect when you rotate the Cube. Now all virtual desktops can be displayed when you move your cursor to the top right corner of the screen.

Scale Plugin In Window Management The Scale Plugin lets you display all active windows at the same time when you move your cursor to the corner of the screen that you set it to use. Enable "Scale Plugin" by clicking on it. Note: Now all active windows can be displayed at once when you move your cursor to the top left corner of the screen, in the next portion of this guide I will show you how to setup effects like "Burn", "Airplane" and a few others.

Compiz Animations In Effects 1. Put a check by "Animations" and "Animations Add-on". Click on "Animations Plugin", now make sure the tab highlighted at the top of the window is "Open Animations", then right under "Open Effect" double click on the first line in the small window which is called Glide 2. In the window that pops up where it says "Open Effects", click on it and select "Airplane". Set duration to so it will stay open long enough to enjoy the effect, then close the window.

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Remove Compiz you say? I think my ans is wrong. Reinstalling compiz may solve this problem. All you need to do is run two commands in a terminal window. When it opens, run the below command to reset Unity and Compiz settings:.

To get back the default set of Unity Launcher icons, run below command and then log out and back in. Thanks for the info, but I want to report that the setsid unity froze my system. Had to force a shut down. Hi, I was finding solution for my Ubuntu Code Cannot open dconf database: invalid gvdb header.

So I found that my user file is corrupted… and the solution is renaming the corrupted file, like this…. This Linux, get used to it.

Every tiny little innocent-looking command can completely fuck up your system. After hours of frustration and trying any given set of commands, I ended up recreating the user account.

Thanks Daniel, that did the trick for me. Although Ubuntu instructed me to do an extra step before I could do the sudo apt-get install. Unfortunately I forget what that command was. Was panicking that I was going to have to do a full re-install! Login 3. You should have a link to xterm on your desktop now. I totally messed up my desktop environment with the compiz gui interface..

Simply install ccsm in xterm skip this step of you have it installed already : sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager.