2008/6/21 Phlip <phlip2005 at gmail.com>:> Compiz:
>
> A colleague tempted me with compiz eye candy, and I tried it.
>
> Sorry, but many features were too far outside my usability comfort zone:
>
> - lazy mouse (in /this/ day and age???)
Lazy? Could you be more descriptive? I don't understand how an
inanimate object (other than a regex) could be lazy.
> - The Run window did not reliably pop up
I also had this problem on Kubuntu. Pressing Ctrl-F2 twice was
necessary. I don't remember at what point it went away, but you might
want to update you system.
> - minimize-all-windows turned everything black
Can't help you here.
> Some of those items were configurable. Some required multiple, diverse
> reconfigurations to fix. I couldn't fix the last one.
>
> And I could not find a simple "off" button among
compizconfig-settings-manager's
> confusingly-named options.
The checkmark on the side is the off button. I also hate ccsm.
> sudo aptitude remove compizconfig-settings-manager
>
> (hey Ubuntu why is that a separate item)?
Because Ubuntu has a separate, stripped down version as standard.
> sudo aptitude remove compiz-core
>
> And the /coup de grace/:
>
> sudo aptitude reinstall kwin
>
> I still don't know if that reinstalled the Kubuntu-standard popup on
Alt+Tab.
>
For one thing, you could have done all that on one line:
$ sudo aptitude remove compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-core compiz-kde
For another, it appears to me that you've answered your own question.
Or did I miss something?
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