after login there is no desktop showing accept the whole white screen.

[shafqat]

when i first login i turn the desktop effects and my desktop turns into white screen and after reboot and login the same problem ,having desktop becomes white and only i can see the curser

[cpinto (cdcpinto)]

Same problem here! After enabling desktop-effects the whole screen went blank (or white), i tried reboot several times with same result. Logging with a different session does not solve the problem either...

[Arun (aruntahlan)]

If having access to Compiz/Beryl management application (shown as a status bar icon), try changing the window manager settings. I faced the same problem, but it worked when I changed the window manager to fallback to metacity on failure. If you dont have it yet, can find the Compiz/Beryl management application in Synaptic.

[Arun (aruntahlan)]

Try this

gnome-compiz-manager

[cpinto (cdcpinto)]

Thanks for the information, but I can´t access Compiz/Beryl management
application because after login the whole screen turns white (or blank) and
i can´t really see much.
I tried also to disable compiz in command line but with no success wither...
At this time i´m thinking reinstall ubuntu again.

On 9/5/07, Arun <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Try this
>
> gnome-compiz-manager
>
> ** Changed in: desktop-effects (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => In Progress
>
> --
> after login there is no desktop showing accept the whole white screen.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120710
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>

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

Do you have this problem in Gutsy? If so I think it might be a duplicate of Bug #160264

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

[Patrick (hanckmann-gmail)]

The problem still exists. Please let me know which kind of info you need and I will try to gather it for you.
Let me start with some hardware specs.
- IBM T42 laptop
 -- Intel Pentium M 1.7 735 CPU (Dothan), 2MB L2
 -- 768MB PC2700 DDR
 -- 60GB 5600RPM
 -- Combo DVD CDRW station
 -- 15" TFT, SXGA (1400x1050)
 -- Ati Mobility Radeon 9600 64MB DDR
 -- 802.11G WLAN
 -- Gigabit ethernet adapter
 -- 56k6 modem
 -- 2x PCMCIA Type II
 -- 2x USB2.0
 -- S-Video
Then my software specs:
- Latest ubuntu beta for 8.04 with all updates in place.
- Official AMD/ATI linux drivers from the standard repositories

Then I can say that everything does work when working with 1 kernel version lower. Might it be a compatibility issue between the kernel and the driver?

[joelholdsworth (joel-airwebreathe)]

I have this problem with my Radeon 9800 Pro on Hardy. White screen when I enable compiz - only the cursor is shown. This is a problem both with radeon and fglrx drivers.

For me this is a regression. Compiz worked fine - even on the LiveCD and was auto-enabled by default on Gutsy. Now compiz is disabled by default, and when I enabled it I get the WSOD!

[joelholdsworth (joel-airwebreathe)]

I think this might be duplicate/similar to bug 196900

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Thanks to everyone who reported and commented on this bug, I'm sorry that we weren't able to address the issue directly. desktop-effects does not seem to exist in any supported version of Ubuntu anymore, so closing as Won't Fix.