intrepid, visual effects settings are not restored after session restart

[Alexey Balmashnov]

Up to date Intrepid.

I have to switch off visual effects because of bug #262367 But even if I switch the effects off, the effects will be enabled again after restart of the session.

Expected behavior: System respects user settings.

[Piraja (piraja-deactivatedaccount)]

I confirm that disabling visual effects is not restored in Intrepid (fresh install to a system with a separate /home partition). What is more, when I start a new session and realize that the visual effects are re-enabled in spite of my having them switched off, if I go to "System > Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects", none of the circles seems checked. I can check "None" and it works for the rest of the session, but after restart, apparently the "Normal" visual effects (or maybe some modified mode of the effects, since none of the options seems to be checked?) are enabled again.

[Piraja (piraja-deactivatedaccount)]

It appears that setting a transparent Gnome Terminal interferes with the visual effects, and setting the Visual Effects to "None" correspondingly affects the Terminal settings (transparency disappears). It appears also that the Terminal transparency setting is interpreted as belonging to a "Custom" type of "Visual Effects", because none of the options in "Visual Effects" is checked after restart (regularly GUI options box, "none checked" often equals "custom settings in use", as we all know).

I realized that the Gnome Terminal transparency behavior has changed in the upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid, so that the former pseudo transparency has changed into "true" transparency (meaning that the transparent window lets the underlying windows and not only the desktop background be seen through).

So, if my guess is correct, it could be that saved custom visual settings (such as Terminal transparency) affect the Visual Effects scheme?

[Piraja (piraja-deactivatedaccount)]

I have to take back what I wrote in my previous post: Terminal transparency settings probably do not affect the Visual Settings scheme (?) and I'm not sure whether any change has been made in the upgrade to Intrepid in regard of the transparency behaviour; it's the other way around, as I see it, namely so that "true" transparency presupposes that Compiz visual effects are enabled to some degree: "Normal" mode perhaps?

An easy workaround seems to be the command "metacity --replace".

[Alexey Balmashnov (a.balmashnov)]

Can not reproduce anymore after clean install of 8.10 beta

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Is this still an issue for anyone? I have been unable to recreate this bug using Intrepid. Thanks in advance.

[Piraja (piraja-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for your inquiry. It is no longer an issue for me.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

[Alassane (alassane-maiga)]

I still have this bug now. might be a regression. It was working fine untile yesterday. For me I want the effetcs enable at startup but it always fail. I have to enable them by han

[LexLuthor (felixschlegel)]

Same problem for me. I want to have all visual effects activated, but after every restart its reset to none. no idea why...

[Martien Verbruggen (martien.verbruggen)]

I have a similar problem, but the other way around from the original report.

I upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid a few days ago on a few machines. The upgrade went without glitches on two i386 installations (one VirtualBox and one on my old laptop). On this AMD64 installation, however, there have been some glitches, one of which is the resetting of the desktop effects to behave like 'None' when starting a session. Like with other people, there is nothing checked in the 'visual effects' tab when I check.

Checking 'Extra' will re-enable things for the session, but it returns to None again when I restart.

I work around it for now by using the Compiz Fusion Icon, and telling it to restart the window manager, as using the 'Appearance' tabs also resets all customisations I chose for Compiz.

[dysonsphere (dysonsphere23)]

I have the same problem:

Visual effects do not enable at start-up.
In the Appearance Preferences none of the buttons are checked.
Checking the Extra Button resets all the Compiz settings, so I too have worked around this by reloading the window manager in Compiz Icon.

Clean install of Intrepid 64-bit.

[Antonio Roberts (hellocatfood)]

I too am having this problem. I'm on Ubuntu Jaunty. Any other information needed?