Desktop Effects not saved after restart!

[alexmclaren]

Have just waged the well travelled warpath against compiz, and seem to ahve everything organized as I would like, then I reboot, and nothing is saved??? any ideas ?

[Vadi]

Which settings aren't saved?

[alexmclaren]

most noticeably the window edge effects, the accessibility becomes 'Disabled', (i.e most things in the compiz-config console are not kept...), furhtermore, having reverted back to the no effects option, all my scrolling seems slow and fragmented ...

[Vadi]

What is your video card?

[alexmclaren]

ATI Radeon RV516 X1300

[alexmclaren]

bump?

[Vadi]

In the settings manager, go to preferences, and save everything to a profile. After a reboot, apply the profile - do the settings come back?

[alexmclaren]

hmm as soon as I saved the profile it went straight back to two dektops, chucked all the windows open in various dektops into one and removed all the edge effects (like expo, show desktop, switch etc..) will reboot now and see what happens after making a change or two to the profile

[alexmclaren]

saving it to a profile has worked thankyou! but i ahve lost lots of options in the window edge effects (switch, window picker, etc ... ? ideas) and i've lost window decorations!

Thank you for all the help!

[Vadi]

Hmm.

What are you using to start Compiz, do you know? Did you add anything special to System - Preferences - Sessions?

[alexmclaren]

not that i'm aware of, by ticking boxes in the compiz config settings manager i've been able to restore most of the options for the edges, but despite looking into the window decorations tab i'm still missing the title bar to drage a window around and the close minimize and maximize buttons ...

[Vadi]

Try doing alt+f2 and gtk-window-decorator --replace. Does it come back?

btw, meanwhile, if you don't know - you can move a window with alt+left click.

[LinuxIsInnovation]

Or press Alt+F2 and do:
gtk-window-decorator --replace