On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:39:03PM +1030, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: >> >> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:08:19AM +1030, we recorded a bogon-computron >> collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: ["Cigar" in Ubuntu with Nvidia card and "Restricted Driver" >> >> This is extraordinarily puzzling. You don't, by any chance, have "Desktop >> Effects" enabled, do you? >> >> >> > Well Tom herein lies more answers.. Ive never looked at "Desktop Effects" > and had a job finding that setup frankly.. But yes I have Desktop Effects > set to Normal in Gnome. So I disabled it to None and bingo no more Cigar > problems.. So maybee it depends what video card I have but ultimately its > Related to Gnome and Desktop effects with the restricted video drivers.
Desktop effects are generally disabled by default and one has to turn them on deliberately. They come with warnings that they could screw things up, and are supposed to be a pretty experimental feature --- and since they're just eye candy I have never bothered. Glad my shot in the dark found a target. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
