Re: [SLUG] Task bar not working
Jan Schmidt said: These commands will disable and then reenable metacity compositing: gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager -t bool false gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager -t bool true Metacity compositing yes. Compiz compositing no. Given that Chris has given us no indication of the compositor he uses, and tells us he uses Ubuntu 10.04, don’t you think it would be wiser to advise based on Compiz, which is used in Ubuntu by default since 7.10? To adjust Compiz settings you can go to System → Preferences → Appearance, and on the Visual Effects tab, select ‘None’ to turn off Compiz. Chris, what video card do you use? (‘lspci | grep VGA’) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Task bar not working
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 21:17 +1000, Chris Allen wrote: I am using Ubuntu 10.4 Since yesterday my task bar (@ bottom of Gnome screen) has been unworkable. It is still there but is always black on black. When I minimise a window, I see it shrink and disappear into the task bar but after that I see no trace of it. It almost impossible to recall it again from the task bar. Is there any explanation / fix for this? I've seen this happen on my wife's laptop twice, with NVidia drivers and compositing turned on. Seems to be a NVidia bug to me. Turning off compositing and turning it back on again fixes it, or rebooting. These commands will disable and then reenable metacity compositing: gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager -t bool false gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager -t bool true - Jan. -- Jan Schmidt thay...@noraisin.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Task bar not working
On 22/07/10 21:17, Chris Allen wrote: I am using Ubuntu 10.4 Since yesterday my task bar (@ bottom of Gnome screen) has been unworkable. It is still there but is always black on black. When I minimise a window, I see it shrink and disappear into the task bar but after that I see no trace of it. It almost impossible to recall it again from the task bar. Is there any explanation / fix for this? Chris Allen http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140473 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Task bar not working
Jon Jermey jonjer...@gmail.com writes: On 22/07/10 21:17, Chris Allen wrote: I am using Ubuntu 10.4 Since yesterday my task bar (@ bottom of Gnome screen) has been unworkable. It is still there but is always black on black. When I minimise a window, I see it shrink and disappear into the task bar but after that I see no trace of it. It almost impossible to recall it again from the task bar. Is there any explanation / fix for this? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140473 Ouch! Delete all your settings, just to restore the one application? That would really hurt. You would probably be much better off firing up gconf-editor and looking through the Windows Registry ^W^W gconf database for the menu settings, or hunting for the GNOME panel settings under ~/.gnome and deleting only those. Assuming that is the problem the OP faces, and not rather that some bug somewhere has broken his system without his actually doing anything. Daniel I would consider turning off compositing in your window manager and see if that helps. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Task bar not working
I am using Ubuntu 10.4 Since yesterday my task bar (@ bottom of Gnome screen) has been unworkable. It is still there but is always black on black. When I minimise a window, I see it shrink and disappear into the task bar but after that I see no trace of it. It almost impossible to recall it again from the task bar. Is there any explanation / fix for this? Chris Allen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
