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Crackity Jones
July 15th, 2009, 02:06 PM
System > Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects

Since I have been using Ubuntu, I have always used the default visual effect setting - the 'normal' mode.

I switched to 'none' (no visual effects) to see if it would improve my system performance at all. It didn't and so I decided to switch back to the original 'normal' mode. In the last month my computer will not let me switch back - it goes all funny for about 30 seconds and then says that

Desktop Effects cannot be enabled

How do I get round this?

JoyousDeath
July 22nd, 2009, 03:44 PM
I have this same problem though mine started when I entered this code into the terminal:


compiz --replace -c emerald &

The process was aborted prematurely and automatically and now I can't see desktop visual effects.

Anyone know enough to help us?:confused:

JoyousDeath
July 22nd, 2009, 03:54 PM
Okay, I just got mine to work. If you have a compiz problem try this page. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1204518&highlight=visual+effects+enabled

It was drs305's post that helped me.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1204518&highlight=visual+effects+enabled#5


But this is only if you have a compiz problem, and I'm not sure how to test for that. :\