wrjbarber
February 16th, 2015, 04:46 PM
My preferred desktop has always been Gnome using Compiz so I can have the desktop cube and 3D windows on rotate. Since the release of Gnome 3, I have been using Gnome Fallback because Gnome 3 combined with Unity never seemed to get along with the Nvidia driver(s) on my machine.
I currently have four problems with my setup:
1) Compiz Fusion Icon usually crashes on desktop loading. Which in turn means desktop wallpapers, skydome etc don't load until I go into CSSM and add new wallpapers to the list and set skydome to animate (which causes the compiz service to restart I think)
2) When using the latest Nvidia drivers, Flash objects on the web would sometimes cause the whole window to start flickering. Using the hotkeys to retract my desktop to cube and releasing it without flipping desktops. This happens regardless if I am using the latest available Adobe Flash or using the native Gnash. (in addition, Gnash would sometimes crash even when not viewing Flash objects at all, such as when browsing my documents folders) Rolling back to an older driver works, but at a noticeable performance hit
3) My boot partition is no longer big enough to accept updates.
4) Despite much fiddling; I could never get Plymouth boot screens to work consistently. I tried using Super Boot Manager, which I suspect caused the lack of boot space in #3
There are numerous other fiddlin' little issues, mostly caused by my constant tweaking. I plan on buying an SSD this week and migrating over to that, making sure to create a bigger boot partition in the process. But since I am going to be basically doing the work of a fresh install, I am considering my options:
a) Go with the default Ubuntu/Unity install and then tweak/modify so that I get my beloved desktop cube and other tweaks back, like I have done every time before.
b) Roll my own Ubuntu/Gnome/Compiz oriented disk and migrate only my data to that fresh install. I have only ever compiled specific rescue disks before, but I don't see a problem rolling my own distro from scratch except for the problems inherent in keeping it updated...
c) Make the switch to Kubuntu or other KDE specific distro and install Kwin on that so I can get the KDE equivalents of desktop cube etc.
My goal is to have a very polished looking, customized installation with a fair bit of eye-candy from boot to desktop.
Any advice, opinions, rants or flames all appreciated...
I currently have four problems with my setup:
1) Compiz Fusion Icon usually crashes on desktop loading. Which in turn means desktop wallpapers, skydome etc don't load until I go into CSSM and add new wallpapers to the list and set skydome to animate (which causes the compiz service to restart I think)
2) When using the latest Nvidia drivers, Flash objects on the web would sometimes cause the whole window to start flickering. Using the hotkeys to retract my desktop to cube and releasing it without flipping desktops. This happens regardless if I am using the latest available Adobe Flash or using the native Gnash. (in addition, Gnash would sometimes crash even when not viewing Flash objects at all, such as when browsing my documents folders) Rolling back to an older driver works, but at a noticeable performance hit
3) My boot partition is no longer big enough to accept updates.
4) Despite much fiddling; I could never get Plymouth boot screens to work consistently. I tried using Super Boot Manager, which I suspect caused the lack of boot space in #3
There are numerous other fiddlin' little issues, mostly caused by my constant tweaking. I plan on buying an SSD this week and migrating over to that, making sure to create a bigger boot partition in the process. But since I am going to be basically doing the work of a fresh install, I am considering my options:
a) Go with the default Ubuntu/Unity install and then tweak/modify so that I get my beloved desktop cube and other tweaks back, like I have done every time before.
b) Roll my own Ubuntu/Gnome/Compiz oriented disk and migrate only my data to that fresh install. I have only ever compiled specific rescue disks before, but I don't see a problem rolling my own distro from scratch except for the problems inherent in keeping it updated...
c) Make the switch to Kubuntu or other KDE specific distro and install Kwin on that so I can get the KDE equivalents of desktop cube etc.
My goal is to have a very polished looking, customized installation with a fair bit of eye-candy from boot to desktop.
Any advice, opinions, rants or flames all appreciated...