defaults to 'normal effects' even when the driver does not support compositing
Bug #144913 reported by
Martin Pitt
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-control-
When using a driver that does not support compositing (such as nv, vesa, in vmware...), the effects setting still defaults to 'normal'. Switching to 'more effects' has no effect, and switching to 'off' and back looks confusing.
Ideally, in this case this should show a message that desktop effects are not supported with the graphics card driver in use.
restricted-manager already checks at first boot whether a proprietary driver is available, so I don't think that c-c needs to do anything special about it.
Related branches
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
assignee: | nobody → macslow |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
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The problem is that the code currently checks only for the currently configured wm, but not the running one:
This needs to be fixed.