Comment 19 for bug 178953

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max (maxozilla) wrote : Re: compiz doesn't start if metacity compositor is enabled

@qinjuehang: I'm afraid I don't understand. What would stay? And which compositor? The fact of the matter is, Ubuntu is supposed to allow me to enable Visual Effects through the Appearance config dialog, but it wouldn't until I typed an arcane command in a terminal:

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager false

I shouldn't have to do this. Plus the fact that visual effects were working fine before, and i definitely didn't enable Metacity's compositing manager. So why did this happen? Is it a bug?