[regression?] No way to enable desktop effects in classic session

[Felix Zweig]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Since Unity with Ubuntu 11.04, there's no way to enable desktop effects w/o Unity. The tab in gnome-appearance-properties is missing, and setting Compiz as window manager in GConf doesn't work either.

A workaround is adding "compiz --replace" as a startup application, but it would be nice if we had an easier and more consistent option again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 27 16:32:31 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[damien_d (d-dusha)]

Hi,

As a workaround, try the following:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

It worked for me. Though I do agree that it would be nice if this was a bit more obvious.

[Felix Zweig (f.zweig)]

compizconfig-settings-manager is installed, but metacity is still being
used as window manager. However, I'm using a dedicated /home partition
with settings from 10.10, so this might not be the right behaviour.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The visual effects configuration got deprecated in natty in favor of different sessions that been selected from the login screen, closing the bug