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Dry Lips
April 28th, 2011, 09:56 PM
I've just upgraded to 11.04, but Unity is unfortunately not my cup of tea.
I use the classic desktop but I cannot find a way to disable a certain
graphical desktop effect... I'm thinking of how the current workspace
quickly slides into the next when I choose a different workspace.

If my recollection is correct, you could turn effects like that
off in 10.10. This makes me dizzy, :-& does any of know how to turn this off?

cecilpierce
April 28th, 2011, 11:29 PM
I've just upgraded to 11.04, but Unity is unfortunately not my cup of tea.
I use the classic desktop but I cannot find a way to disable a certain
graphical desktop effect... I'm thinking of how the current workspace
quickly slides into the next when I choose a different workspace.

If my recollection is correct, you could turn effects like that
off in 10.10. This makes me dizzy, :-& does any of know how to turn this off?

Open a terminal window and type ccsm, then look at Desktop>Desktop Wall, see if it disables the slider.

Dry Lips
April 28th, 2011, 11:44 PM
I had to install

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager Really nice program, btw! I'm definitively going to have a closer look at it!

I went to Desktop>Desktop Wall>Viewport Switching
and set “Wall sliding duration” to 0.

at Desktop>Desktop Wall>Viewport Switch preview
I also set “Switch target preview visibility time” to 0.

Voila! Thanks a lot. My head has stopped spinning now! 8-)

cecilpierce
April 29th, 2011, 01:53 AM
I had to install

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager Really nice program, btw! I'm definitively going to have a closer look at it!

I went to Desktop>Desktop Wall>Viewport Switching
and set “Wall sliding duration” to 0.

at Desktop>Desktop Wall>Viewport Switch preview
I also set “Switch target preview visibility time” to 0.

Voila! Thanks a lot. My head has stopped spinning now! 8-)


Glad it worked out, I like the cube but its hard to get it going without a lot of editing files and I'm not to lucky sometimes ! :)

Krytarik
April 29th, 2011, 04:40 AM
I went to Desktop>Desktop Wall>Viewport Switching
and set “Wall sliding duration” to 0.
Thanks for that tip, I didn't notice that setting before. I regularly switch workspaces, and disabling those feature makes that indeed much snappier. =)


at Desktop>Desktop Wall>Viewport Switch preview
I also set “Switch target preview visibility time” to 0.

You can disable those feature completely by unticking "Show Viewport Switcher Preview".

Krytarik
April 29th, 2011, 06:32 AM
I went to Desktop>Desktop Wall>Viewport Switching
and set “Wall sliding duration” to 0.

And you can disable those feature completely by setting "Non Sliding Windows" to "any".

Dry Lips
May 2nd, 2011, 10:24 PM
And you can disable those feature completely by setting "Non Sliding Windows" to "any".

Thanks Krytarik! This made it even snappier.

However I'm having another problem. When a window is minimised, and you click on it again, it makes this jumping motion, if you know what I mean... Does any of you know how to disable this?

Krytarik
May 2nd, 2011, 11:30 PM
When a window is minimised, and you click on it again, it make this jumping motion, if you know what I mean... Does any of you know how to disable this?
I guess your are meaning "CompizConfig Settings Manager -> Animations -> Minimize Animation", there is by default a single rule, which is set to "Zoom", just set it to "None".

Dry Lips
May 2nd, 2011, 11:47 PM
Yep! That's the one. Thanks again! :D