Forcing compiz to use ccsm settings and play better with nVidia
Monday, February 18, 2008Desktop effects are cool. But they are getting way cooler when you use tools like ccsm, which give you total control over all those fancy effects that you can show off to Windows users, or your (girl|boy)friend, or even to yourself while there’s nothing else to do. However, regarding a huge number of plugins and/or options available in ccsm, setting all things up nicely takes quite a while. It is rewarding, but again – you wouldn’t rather go through all of this again, would you? But what to do if your precise compiz setup suddenly refuses to work, leaving you with plain and default (and boring) settings, that are far away from being cool as you wanted? Read on. (more…)