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98cwitr
October 18th, 2011, 03:10 AM
Installed compiz manager, checked wobbly windows, they don't work...I loved the wobbly windows!

Yes, I understand this is trivial and picky :D
98cwitr
October 19th, 2011, 04:49 PM
bump
coffeecat
October 19th, 2011, 05:18 PM
They work for me in 11.10 with an ATI card, so they should work for you with your "MSI 8600GT GPU" (I presume that's a nvidia GeForce 8600GT?). Which video driver are you using? And - are you sure you are logged into the Unity 3d desktop and not the Unity 2d desktop?
98cwitr
October 21st, 2011, 01:46 AM
The 173, the newest driver didn't play nice, so I had to use the old one :/

I'm logged in with Gnome-shell.
98cwitr
October 25th, 2011, 12:51 AM
Installed newest driver...still doesn't work :(
qamelian
October 25th, 2011, 01:14 AM
'm logged in with Gnome-shell.

That would be the problem. Gnome-shell doesn't use compiz.
98cwitr
October 25th, 2011, 03:25 AM
So no wobbly windows?! :(
qamelian
October 26th, 2011, 01:56 PM
So no wobbly windows?! :(
That's pretty much correct. It was pretty highly publicized (and commented on here in the forums) that Gnome-shell was a plugin for the default Gnome 3 window manager and therefore couldn't work with Compiz. This is pretty much that same way that Unity is a plugin for Compiz, so you couldn't, for example, combine Unity with Fluxbox.
fikr4n
March 16th, 2012, 04:11 AM
O, so compiz and gnome-shell are not mutual.
I hope gnome-shell at least adds wobbly windows as a feature ... like in compiz.