No Visual Effects (SOLVED)

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No Visual Effects (SOLVED)

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Just installed LMDE, quite impressed at the moment, the only issue I have so far, is I cant enable any visual effects.
when I right click the Desktop & go to "change desktop background" theres no visual effects tab.
Compiz & plugins plus fusion-icon is installed, and set up, but I have nothing.
Is this just me or does anyone else have the same problem?
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JasonLG

Re: No Visual Effects

Post by JasonLG »

cottfcfan wrote:Just installed LMDE, quite impressed at the moment, the only issue I have so far, is I cant enable any visual effects.
when I right click the Desktop & go to "change desktop background" theres no visual effects tab.
Compiz & plugins plus fusion-icon is installed, and set up, but I have nothing.
Is this just me or does anyone else have the same problem?
Read the known problems page.http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_debian.php simple-ccsm is missing.
darco
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Re: No Visual Effects

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cottfcfan wrote:Just installed LMDE, quite impressed at the moment, the only issue I have so far, is I cant enable any visual effects.
when I right click the Desktop & go to "change desktop background" theres no visual effects tab.
Compiz & plugins plus fusion-icon is installed, and set up, but I have nothing.
Is this just me or does anyone else have the same problem?
Yes I noticed that too...once I installed my 3d drivers, rebooted, then start compiz via the terminal it was fine. I also had to add compiz to the Startup Application list.
cottfcfan
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Re: No Visual Effects (SOLVED)

Post by cottfcfan »

Thanks for all your posts, tried them all and nothing worked.
In the end I compared all my Ubuntu graphics packages I had installed with those on LMDE.
One was missing "libgl1-mesa-dri".
Installed that package and visual effects are restored.
Thanks again.
kwevej

Re: No Visual Effects (SOLVED)

Post by kwevej »

Just a note:
If u want to set compiz as default window manager, run:

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gconftool-2 --set -t string /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager compiz
markcynt

Re: No Visual Effects

Post by markcynt »

ikey wrote:yet still very easy to fix ;)
Use CompizConfig Settings Manager (ccsm) to tweak all your compiz plugins,
then activate it like this from the terminal:

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compiz --replace  &
Worked for me.

Thanks ikey :)
blowtorch

Re: No Visual Effects (SOLVED)

Post by blowtorch »

Create a Start Up Program entry for Compiz

Command: compiz --replace --fast-filter

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