Paul,

There are 4 visual effects options, the first one "None" will run metacity 
window manager, the other three will attempt to run compiz with different
items enabled/disabled.

cheer

Matt


On 27/03/2009 14:33, Paul Griffith wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:16:31 -0400, Ghee Teo <Ghee.Teo at sun.com> wrote:
>
>> On 03/27/09 13:46, Paul Griffith wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am new to OpenSolaris. I am running on a quadcore with 8GB and a
>>> Nvidia 9600GT with 512MB of ram.
>>>
>>> I am having a problem with windows appearing with decorations and
>>> sometimes the window will appear as a white box. This problem even
>>> extends to dialog boxes and drop down menus.
>> This is not unusual when you are running compiz, but you said below
>> you have visual effect to Normal which mean you are not running compiz.
>
> When I run with visual effects set to Normal I still see
> /usr/bin/compiz-bin still running.
> Do I have to reboot? Is compiz the only window manager
>
> ps -eaf | grep -i com
> /usr/bin/compiz-bin --indirect-rendering --replace ccp
> --indirect-rendering --f
>
>>> Visual Effects is set to normal with the Nimbus theme and I have 6
>>> virtual screen.
>> What do you mean by virtual screen? Are you running in virtual
>> environment of do you mean 6 workspaces?
>
> I am running 6 workspaces.
>
>>> Any hints, I didn't see anything on bugs.opensolaris.org
>> Please check defect.opensolaris.org under gnome and you can log bug
>> there too.
>> This is where desktop related bugs should be logged.
>
> There are so many bugs related to compiz, I think mine is covered.
>
>> -Ghee
>
> Thanks
> Paul
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