[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on
[Expired for gnome-session (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500570 Title: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/500570/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on
** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500570 Title: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/500570/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on
Guys I'm new to Ubuntu could anyone tell me how to fix this bugs ??? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500570 Title: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/500570/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on
Same as #7 : no desktop.file found This bug has other other side effects. 1) The system/preferences/appearance visual effects always returns to normal however this mode is incompatible with mozilla thunderbird causing the windows not to refresh each time i login, i have to set up visual effects none to be able to read mails ! 2) As connected with my user, wenever someone tries to open a new session without loggin me out, the screen session becomes unusable : the screen is messed and unusable. The only way to exit from this is a power off Not shure this is linked with: I am also affected with compiz decoration bug wich imposes me to launch compiz --replace at startup. ** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed -- Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on
The workaround in comment #5 worked for me, thanks Walter, I've been grinding my teeth for a while on this. Interestingly, even an empty ~/.local/share/applications/compiz.desktop causes the symptoms described here. With an empty compiz-desktop file, the following error message turns up in ~/.xsession-errors (and syslog): gnome-session[6751]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'compiz' of required component 'windowmanager' 'fraid I don't know anything about gnome-session or compiz, so I can't dig any further than this. BTW, I'm using a dual monitor set-up, in case anyone else experiencing the problem here also has. HTH -- Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on
I have the exact same issue as that comment #3 except that I do not have a compiz/desktop file in the ~/.local/share/applications/ directory. Clearly I have something that also messes up my Visual Effects settings on login. -- Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on
I installed the recommended ATI video driver and would get a watermark hardware not supported. Despite everything working (compiz) you can imagine i was not really happy. In an attempt to have the watermark removed i followed instructions to install the newest ATI driver (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI), that did solve the watermark problem, however left me with the problem that is mentioned here. So, not easily discouraged, found some remark about replacing the file 'control'. With that change it seems to run smoothly now, try at your own risk: 1. installed proprietary driver from System - Administration - Harware driver this will get me the 'unsupported hardware' watermark 2. downloaded newest driver from ATI (www.ati.com) and extract deb files sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-10-2-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/karmic 3. took the file 'control' from it with is somewhere in subarchives 'xorg-driver-fglrx_*.deb/../etc/ati/' 4. used it to replace the file in /etc/ati/ (backup the original if you like) 5. reboot ununtu 9.10 64 bit, ati hd5770 -- Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on
Just in case anyone else hits this problem, I found the cause. My ~/.local/share/applications/ directory had a compiz.desktop file in it. Don't know what wrote the file or tried to figure out exactly what in the file caused my Visual Effects settings to get messed up on login, but my other systems don't have this file and I simply renamed it to get rid of the problem. -- Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
