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["Sam \"SmSpillaz\" Spilsbury" <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Yougo <h_venhorst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> thanks for the elaboration about OpenGL, though i prettymuch knew that.
>
> if software acceleration with OpenGL is such a no-go, shouldn't Compiz
> just tell me it can't be done, and then either switch to this 2D mode,
> or revert my desktop to metacity, instead of segfaulting and leaving me
> without window borders?
>
> is there anyway to set compiz to 2d manually and atleast see if that
> works?

Yes, go into CCSM and disable the composite and opengl plugins.

The transition won't be pretty though, and the gtk-window-decorator in
2D mode is only sort of part way there, so you might have to restart
it in order to make it work correctly

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Sam Spilsbury

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compiz can't load plugins and won't run in VirtualBox
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675307
You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz
packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in ubuntu.