http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567326 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567326#c0 Summary: Compiz is enabled by default as soon as 3D is activated. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Usability AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: carlos.e.r@opensuse.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Situation. Normal, default Gnome install. Nvidia card with nv, open, drivers. All is working correctly, for weeks. Now, the user enables the nvidia repo, installs the closed source driver, switches to 3D, and suddenly the desktop starts working... strangely. Windows, when moved, tremble like they are made of rubber. As the display is new, I think that they have had it on me, and gave me a bad display with a very bad refresh time, so that window movement lags behind. I switch back to 2D, everything is normal again. Perhaps the closed driver is bad. But 50Hz is not that terrible on LCD... I delete gnome config. Nothing restores my desktop. After about two hours of desperation, I hit ctrl-alt-right to go to another desktop and... I see the cube rotating! Ahhh! At last I know what it is happening. Compiz has been enabled, without my doing it, over my back. So I load the control center, and look for a master switch for Compiz. There isn't such, or it doesn't work, or I can't find it. So I disable every thing I see related to compiz or effects. I notice one called "wobbling windows". :-/ I can't imagine a sane, serious, Novell/SuSE employee enabling this madness on unsuspecting users and even thinking it is good for usability. Wobbling windows, for * sake! After login again, things are worse, very broken. Like not being able to switch workspace. So, I log in gnome as root, fire the yast -qt sw_single module, and remove compiz for good. Then delete all gnome configuration directories for the user, again, for the third or fourth time, and login. Finally, things are back to normal. Please, oh, please, DO NOT enable compiz by default! I can not even imagine that anybody finds this useful for his work. This is not serious. Perhaps somebody wants to show up how nice this Linux thing is to some unknowing Windows user. Fine, let that person enable it. He will know what to expect. I might have done myself that sometime. Now, never. But it is not appropriate to enable it by default on unsuspecting users! -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.