Hi all,
Finally I have made up my mind to move to Ubuntu (Gnome mainly) from openSuSE 10.2 (as a test run for couple of days before deciding on anything). While my installation experience was a breeze, I did have lots of problems which I have not faced in openSuSE 10.2. I will be discussing it later in my next blog, but before that, I guess lots of people are facing some serious problem while trying to enable the Desktop Effects + Beryl in Ununtu 7 Feisty Fawn.
After installing nVidia drivers as I do with openSuSE, I tried enabling the Desktop effects from the menu only to encounter an annoying problem that I lost my window title bars, borders and menus.
After long research on xorg.conf, I figured out the problem. It’s just that, for a strange reason, Fiesty Fawn defaults the screen depth to 16bit. You just have to manually edit the xorg.conf file and change the default screen depth to 24-bit in order to overcome this problem.
Follow the below mentioned steps to make life easier.
- Disable Desktop Effects
- In terminal type sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- Change the Default Depth from 16 to 24 (most cases this is the reason).
- Press Ctrl+O and hit enter when it shows the file name to save it.
- Press Ctrl+X to quit the editor.
- Now enable the Desktop Effects and your problem should be solved.
Have blessed day.
