Liam Proven wrote: > 2009/5/2 Andrew Oakley <[email protected]>: > >> Liam Proven wrote: >> >>> whatever as my WM. Completely turn off and disable Compiz and >>> compositing, for all users, for good. >>> >> In Hardy and Intrepid, this was done with System menu, Preferences, >> Appearance, Visual Effects, None. >> > > As I said in my original post: > > >>> But even >>> changing my Appearance settings to None, Compiz is still my window >>> manager - it's just not adding any effects. >>> > > AFAICS, anyway, disabling effects still leaves Compiz the WM, just > with the chrome disabled. It's dog-slow, anyway, whereas Metacity is > reasonably quick. > > It's sufficiently slow that on my Pentium M 1.6GHz PC with 1GB of RAM > running off a 7200rpm 160GB disk, it can't keep up with my ~80wpm > typing in Gedit. That's unusably slow to me and makes Ubuntu massively > unpleasant to use. > >
I have a similar machine fine that it runs just fine - i'm using ext4 which i find has given it a significant performance boost. However you could try apt-get remove compiz-core which will completely disable compiz. This was something i had to do on my X31 in the early beta stages of jaunty in order to get it to boot. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
