<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Try<br><br>kwin --replace &<br>killall compiz compiz.real<br><br><span>Found here: <a target="_blank" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=485172">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=485172</a></span><br><br>Using search terms: kde disable compiz<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Aaron Cantrell <entplex@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CLUE technical discussion <clue-tech@cluedenver.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:04:05 PM<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [clue-tech] Managed to "pooch" my display<br></font><br>
A few brief remarks on trouble shooting, but by no means a solution:<br><ul><li>I have run into a similar issue with ubuntu in the past and it was basically a matter of getting copiz disabled so that my x-session would start porperly upon login. Try to search around a bit more online about disabling compiz from the term, sorry I can't be of much help on the how-to of this since I haven't used redhat in a while, let alone with compiz installed using KDE.</li>
<li>Another step to be sure it is user specific would be to create a new user from the terminal, and log in as them. this would give you a bit more insight into if you need to look in ~/ or /etc config wise depending on what the exact issue is.</li>
</ul>Hope this brief bit of info might help you along in the proper path, but like I said it has been a while since I have used redhat and used KDE.<br><br>-Aaron<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:33 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net">foo7775@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p>Well, when I made the switch from WinDoze, I knew that it was just a matter of time before I had to write this post... A bit of background:</p>
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<p>My machine is an ordinary 2.8 GHz P-4 Vaio laptop, pretty much stock except that I've bumped up the RAM to 1.5 Gb. Video is provided via an ATI Radeon chipset. I installed Fedora 10, then not too long ago, allowed it to upgrade to v. 11. All has worked well for a while, RedHat is *MUCH* improved from the last time I tried to make the switch (back in the RH3/RH4 time-frame). I started by using Gnome, used that for maybe 5 or 6 weeks, then switched to KDE so that I could make up my mind which I liked best.</p>
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<p>Last night my system booted up with a gray & white checkerboard background, rather than the image that I'd previously set. Because of that, I was looking for the applet that allows the user to set the resolution & desktop wallpaper, & in the process of doing so, I decided to enable the "desktop cube" that shows all open windows on a cube. Shortly thereafter, I found the applet that allows you to switch between KDE & compiz. Figured I'd give that a shot (just to check it out) & promptly inflicted upon myself the dreaded "compiz white screen".</p>
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<p>For those unfamiliar, this allows you to do anything you want at a command prompt, but when you try to boot into graphical mode as the afflicted user, you are greeted with a plain white window with a mouse cursor & nothing else. I've switched to alternate desktops & logged into the cmd-line environment in an effort to undo what I've done, but so far, the bullet is still in my foot. ;~)</p>
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<p>I haven't really made any changes since then, I've found a few pages that appear to describe this issue, but either they don't present solutions, or the solutions that they offer haven't resolved the issue for me. (There have also been a couple that are just too low-level -IOW, close to the hardware- for me to interpret properly.)</p>
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<p>I'm actually a bit glad for this, as it presents an excellent learning opportunity for me. I've never been too knowledgeable about X, it's always seemed a bit baroque, with lots of interlocking pieces - an impression which has been reinforced as I've tried to diagnose this issue. I've tried checking man pages for X, X11 & Xorg, and worked my way over the xinitrc, Xclients, & startkde scripts, but if the answer was there, I just couldn't see it. I also found a page which suggested that someone affected by this should remove the ~/.kde/env/kdewm.sh file, so I renamed mine (just in case), but no luck. I also edited the KDEWM line in the file to point to kwin, but that made no difference either.</p>
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<p>Finally, I've looked through the compiz files in my home directory (since I'm thinking that it's likely to be profile-specific), but haven't found anything there. All that I really want to do is to get back to KDE, or in other words, undo (using the cmd line) what I accidentally did to myself with the GUI.</p>
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<p>Any troubleshooting suggestions (or explanatory theses on how X works) gratefully received.</p>
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<p>Thanks all,</p>
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