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A lots of thanks to terdon who spent so many time on this and finally solve the issue.
A friend of mine has installed on my new machine Ubuntu 12.04 (I have always been windows user and have no experience with Linux).
I started to watch some tutorial about how to make 'Rotated Cube' using 'Compiz',but the cube appears in the form of a list (only two slides).
I have thought this could be result of my video cards (only two - one from the processor and one from the motherboard) and they can not support this options. Anyway, I have decided to disable all compiz plugins and options because my friend has set some, and I started to think there is some misunderstanding between the plugins.
After, that I got only empty screen(no menu, no icons, anything) and can do nothing. How to fix this?
EDIT:
When I remove the compiz stuffs (from the console), the menu is shown again. Then I install the compiz again (some of the effect are still not working). After restart or log out/in the menu is hidden again. I suppose that there are some settings that I've broken but they are saved somewhere in the system and remove the compiz do not deleted them and as a result they are activated after compiz is installed again and the PC is restarted?
Have you tried fixing the settings with compiz config settings manager? You can install it using the command:
– schluchc – 2012-10-10T08:30:12.573sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
Yes, as I remove the compiz stuff, the installed them again and it looks good. Then, after restart or log out/log in, the icons and menu disappears again. Maybe, somewhere is saved configuration file with the old settings? Also, after installing the compiz again, the settings in the manager looks normal (the default ones). – gotqn – 2012-10-10T09:10:50.463
@gotqn What happens if you press
alt+F2
and typecompiz --replace
ormetacity --replace
? – p_strand – 2012-10-10T15:30:46.980@p_strand compiz --replace said the compiz is not intalled on my machine. The metacity --replace gives me strange messages like "Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed." and takes a lot of time (10 minutes) so I stopped it. – gotqn – 2012-10-10T20:35:57.503
try this...Delete the .compiz folder in HOME folder (hidden by default...press CTRL+H to reveal) it will reset compiz settings... – Prasad RD – 2012-10-11T05:50:30.757
@Prasad, thank you, I will try this tonight at home and let you know what happened. – gotqn – 2012-10-11T06:18:07.813
Is it ubuntu 12.04 or 10.04? please edit your question, you have mentioned both :) – Prasad RD – 2012-10-11T06:22:48.810
@Prasad I delete the file, but then after installation the issue come back again - no menus and desktop bar. I try also to use "purge" and restore the default compiz settings but both do not help. – gotqn – 2012-10-11T17:21:00.173