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WDYSUN
September 19th, 2009, 09:26 AM
Dear Friends,

I have Ubuntu 9.04 on my system. I like minimal graphical setups, so my "visual effects" is set to "none". With this setting I have just one problem, when I minimise windows they go down with the appearence a series of black shrinking rectangle. Is this behaviour a regular thing? Can I fix it in some way?

Thanks for your help
Pierre

scrooge_74
September 20th, 2009, 11:53 PM
Could be a driver related issue with your video card

coldfusion1313
September 21st, 2009, 12:02 AM
when I minimise windows they go down with the appearence a series of black shrinking rectangle.

No that is normal, it happens to me when I have no desktop effects. On the other note, why do not you have desktop effects enable, they are really sweet and make your computer look cool. :)

drs305
September 21st, 2009, 12:16 AM
I think running this command will stop the effect you are mentioning. On my machine, what I see as a shrinking rectangle occurs very quickly - almost unnoticeable to me. Of course, it disables more than just this animation, but you can try it:



gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/gnome/interface/enable_animations 'false'


You can reset it by changing the value back to 'true' or opening gconf-editor and going to the applicable setting:


gconf-editor /desktop/gnome/interface/enable_animations


If the above is too general, you could search in gconf-editor for "animations" and see if there is a more targeted setting.


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WDYSUN
September 21st, 2009, 09:38 AM
thanks a lot! worket brilliant!!!

Pierre