Compiz plugins keep unchecking themselves in hardy

[ram100987]

I have a dell 1420n w 7.10 preinstalled and compiz ran perfectly. I recently upgraded to hardy which went flawlessly as far as I can tell. I just realized however that whenever I go into the advanced desktop effects settings I can enable cube and rotate cube but if I try to enable most anything else(like animations, 3d windows, cube caps, etc.) it will uncheck itself as I'm looking at it after only a second or two. I've search google, ubuntu forums and compiz-fusion forum and can't find anything pertaining to this issue. Any one else have this issue and/or know how to fix it? This is really annoying.

p.s. my laptop has the nvidia 8000 series upgrade dell offers.

[Karibbe]

I have a similar problem but, only the 3D plugin unchecks itself. One thing to check is that you have selected "Custom Effects" in the new Ubuntu’s default Compiz desktop effects...it may help.

[Zorael]

If you're using ccsm to configure stuff (compizconfig-settings-manager), go into preferences, export your profile, change backend to flat-file and import the profile again. Should help.

[ram100987]

I have a similar problem but, only the 3D plugin unchecks itself. One thing to check is that you have selected "Custom Effects" in the new Ubuntu’s default Compiz desktop effects...it may help.

I don't see where to select custom effects... It offers none, normal, or extra.

[ram100987]

If you're using ccsm to configure stuff (compizconfig-settings-manager), go into preferences, export your profile, change backend to flat-file and import the profile again. Should help.

although I didn't export and import my profile I did try changing it to flat-file and it did the same thing as with backend.

[ACGarib]

I've got the same problem you have after upgrading from gusty to hardy. Most of the plugins uncheck themselves if I check them.

I read somewhere that removing .compiz in the home directory if it's there helps, but it didn't work for me.

My jpeg plugin doesn't work either so I have to use png images for my backgrounds, but for some reason, the picture quality is very poor.

Hopefully there will be a fix soon.

[ihatethedekoys]

Same problem here. Nothing I've tried has worked.

[ram100987]

I figured out how to select custom under apearance. I had to install simpleccsm. However, even though I can now set the appearance to custom, whether I use the original settings manager or the simple settings manager it does not effect anything.

[Zorael]

From the ground up, then.

Export your profile in CCSM so you have it saved someplace. Go into Software Sources and make sure that you don't have any third-party repositories enabled. Then enter the following.

$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude clean
$ sudo aptitude purge ~ncompiz ~nemerald ~nlibdeco ~nberyl
$ rm -r ~/.compiz     # gets rid of your compiz settings completely
$ sudo aptitude install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager emerald

Then start up compiz and see if it works. If so, go ahead and import your profile again.

[Karibbe]

Thanks Zorael...it worked. I lost the wallpaper plugin (which I'll reinstall now), but I can now check the 3D plugin and it works.