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[Bryan Quigley <bryan.quigley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think a per user option is great for the single user case.   
However, I think a machine option would be better for the business/school setup.  A specific use case:

You have a shared /home setup and many users.
Server A is a powerful terminal server that has an accelerated display but since it's going over RDP, etc the transition are wasted and make Unity seem laggy and unusable.  We want to disable as many affects as possible here.
Computer Lab B is a Linux lab where those same users with the same profiles can use to do daily work, etc.  It runs Unity on full spec totally flawlessly.  They should be able to use it there.

A per-user solution would have us as administrators need to modify each
users directory, change the gsettings, and then basically disable the
effects across the Server A and Computer Lab B.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1412937

Title:
  Config option to set UNITY_LOW_GFX_MODE=1

Status in Unity:
  Triaged
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Right now the procedure to turn on low_gfx_mode is
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/1293384/comments/15

  "sudo -H gedit /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/ubuntu.session
  Remove "compiz" from the RequiredComponents list

  sudo -H gedit /usr/share/upstart/sessions/unity7.conf:

  Add these lines after "export COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE":
  env UNITY_LOW_GFX_MODE="1"
  export UNITY_LOW_GFX_MODE"

  We should add a config option (preferably system wide) to tell
  Compiz/Unity to go to the LOW_GFX mode regardless of what the hardware
  says it can do.

  This will make it easier to setup items like terminal services using
  Unity.   This procedure has helped in at least one case for me, (a
  machine used by several users remotely using Unity).  I can imagine it
  would also help in multiseat scenarios, etc.

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