On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:18 -0700, Jay Mahadeokar wrote: > Hi. > > Ever since I have enabled advanced visual effects on my laptop it hangs as > soon as I boot. I have given a detailed account of the problem here: > > http://noviceopensolaris.blogspot.com/2008/06/opensolaris-advanced-compiz-effects.html > > In short - I am not able to start my desktop. With the gdm disabled I can > work with console but I cannot uninstall or disable compiz in disabled gdm > state. > > The problem has surfaced since I enabled compiz. So can i revert to the > default setting using console. > If not, > I propose a small start-up script that will disable compiz as soon as the gdm > starts. > > Please see if you can help. > > Thanks. > -Jay Mahadeokar >
Select "failsafe terminal" as your session in GDM, and run gnome-appearance-preferences in the xterm. You can then disable Compiz without digging through the GConf tree by hand. -Albert
