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tehowe
October 28th, 2011, 06:14 AM
What the heck happened to Compiz between 10.10 and 11.04? My X crashed during a recent upgrade through the update-manager and I moved to 11.04 since after fighting with Xorg.conf I had to reinstall the system anyways - but now compiz-config does nothing. I have to use that tweak tool to turn on basic compositing... then I've a respectable 2D gnome desktop with reasonable video performance in eg; VLC (mplayer still doesn't do MP4)... but a cheesy workplace switcher. At this point I'm not going to downgrade to 10.10 to get the cube back but I might consider it if it doesn't work in 12.04. I know Compiz does tricks in Unity now, but Studio uses Gnome2, which you'd think would be easier to run a bunch of Linux2 compositing effects in than Unity.

This is a Radeon 5850 with Ubuntu Studio 11.04. Running a later version fglrx driver than 10.10 used. :confused: