turn off compiz fusion

[maccouch]

seriously, i registered just so that i could blast this nonsense. What purpose does enabling Compiz effects on a live cd/dvd serves?!

I was fixing an old pc, and since i forgot my usual pack of linux dvds, i remember to download Knoppix instead of Mint as knoppix was once know as superb and light live cd (Linux MInt has been gaining weight..).

And after spending 30 minutos downloading, burning it to dvdrw booting up the old pc(pentium 4, 1 gb ram, 128 mb graphics) what do i find?! that it had compiz effects enabled by default, no way to disable it and it's slow as molasses because of that.

seriously, what purpose does this nonsense serve?! for me, sincerely, i'm done with knoppix. what a waist of time. if i had gone with Mint, i would be done rescuing data by now. Now i have to have doubled work!

[buymystock]

Knoppix 7.0.5 lets me turn off compiz fusion by going to /home/knoppix/.config/lxsession/LXDE and delete the "config" file, but I also had to go into the desktop.conf file and edit the "window_manager" under "[Session]" to read as "window_manager=kde" instead of "window_manager=compiz --replace" (all without the quotation marks). I used the "vi" editor to do this. You'll love "vi" when you learn to use it! I also needed to click the logout button and then let it log me back in automatically before the editing that I did would take effect.

If after boot you still get compiz - delete the file /home/knoppix/.config/lxsession/LXDE/config

All this is assuming that you run knoppix from usb with persistent data file.If run from cd, there is no way of changing it apart from remastering

[maccouch]

I hate this compiz fusion crap. I know you can use the 'knoppix no3d' on live boot but where do you save this cheatcode so that compiz fusin is permanently disable?

by the way, where can i insert that code? after boot selection i'm not given any time to use it. After the console login as root, it doesn't recognize the comand "knoppix" (maybe it was "startx no3d" ? ).

[wolda]

by the way, where can i insert that code? after boot selection i'm not given any time to use it. After the console login as root, it doesn't recognize the comand "knoppix" (maybe it was "startx no3d" ? ).

No, this cheat code you enter when you are booting knoppix as a kernel parameter (i.e. you write in syslinux: "knoppix no3d"). More about cheat codes: http://knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes (this particular one is actually not listed there, if I see correctly). Enjoy!
To everybody - am I doing something wrong if "standard" key-shortcuts like <Alt>F1/<Alt>F2 does not work for me after replacing compiz with metacity, or there is some bug?

BTW, if you were interested in a small linux for hacking, I'd actually recommend grml instead of knoppix.

OT: I also registered just to write you the reply.

[LX-1000]

While I like Compiz sometimes, I find that enabling it by default is a bit extra. May be it's better to make it as a boot option, similar to Adriane?

If you used UNetbootin to create a bootable USB you can edit syslinux.cfg in the USB root to permanently disable Compiz:

default menu.c32
prompt 0
menu title UNetbootin
timeout 100

label unetbootindefault
menu label Default
kernel /ubnkern
append initrd=/ubninit ramdisk_size=100000 lang=en vt.default_utf8=0 apm=power-off nomce libata.force=noncq hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 loglevel=1 tz=localtime no3d

[Werner P. Schulz]

Only root is allowed to edit this file.
Use Knoppix menu => Run
Type within this new window

gksu leafpad

and you'll get an editor with root-privileges.

[knp]

good afternoon
This is not a solution but "a new problem". I tried this cheatcode and then got too much problems
on my laptop_Knoppix_DVD_7.2 (1G0 Memory)
AND principaly 7.0 which never boot now because a screen problem: PERMANENTLY!!!! even when after having burnt a new DVD.
I prefer the 7.0 which seems lighter and faster than the 7.2 on MY laptop.
Moreover I observe that the 7.2 (which is good however) is not a so "perfect Multi_Tasks" as the previous versions...on MY laptop
I shoud not recomment this cheat code.and some others
good bye
knp

[Werner P. Schulz]

I shoud not recomment this cheat code.and some others

These Cheatcodes which you doesn't recommend are the official cheatcodes by K Knopper.

Please tell us in detail which problems you've got using "knoppix no3d".

[knp]

good afternoon.

Indeed this cheatcode is the official one: that is not the problem. I want only give a warning.Surely the cheatcodes cannot resolve all problems depending on the so much different "materials". I precised it concerns essentially my laptop. My problems after "no3D" even after getting new dvd's from a university of the Netherlands are essentially:

1- DVD 7.0 while booting stops systematically anywhere else between the "root@microknoppix:...#" and the "pinguin" with sometimes(only) the message:"cannot read "text". Once I got rid of this by choosing another "desktop cheatcode.But all stopped when trying to choose a "country"

2- Testdvd for 7.0 AND 7.2 stops with the same message "cannot read text".

3- Testing the memory with 7.2 gives bad results by stopping.

Does-it exist an independant program for testing th memory? The old DVD's went very well before "no3D" BUT... and But...:

a- The new 7.2 boots well now (sometimes after some tentatives if not the program used at the first!). IT is not a "BIOS" problem

b- Even the 7.0 boots well WHEN USING an USB drive...which is not so easy if I am on a hurry (even if I prefer 7.0!).

SUSPICION: Perhaps a bad transmission of informations about my INTERNAL DVD drive?

I insist that happened only after "no3D" which I shall never use more on my laptop as long as I do not have a good understanding of the real problem

Thanks knp

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[Werner P. Schulz]

Per default the cheatcode "no3d" is off! Nobody forces you to use it. Boot your Knoppix without this cheatcode and be happy.

But it seems one or more parts of your hardware is broken.