[compiz] Howto uninstall compiz from Kubuntu

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/21 Phlip <phlip2005 at gmail.com>:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> I see. You can put program and file shortcuts on a KDE panel, you
>> know. I have one that pops up when the mouse meets the lower right
>> screen corner and disappears after 3 seconds.
>
> "Lazy mouse" is an obsolete and broken PARC concept from the Dawn of Windows.
> It's where you skate the mouse, don't click, and the keyboard focus jumps to the
> window under the mouse - sometimes without raising it.
>
> There are just so many reasons this is wrong. One of them is <Alt+Tab> might
> _not_ change the keyboard focus, if the mouse cursor were in the "wrong" place.
> Most GUIs since the PARC research have not used lazy mouse.

Are you saying that Lazy Mouse was enabled without you explicitly
enabling it? That is a bug. Maybe you clicked on the checkbox by
accident?

> In general, I needed a compiz configuration with this magic:
>
>  - change not one of my usabilities

By default it won't, for certain values of "usabilities". Please
define "usabilities".

>  - do the eyecandy!!

By default it will, assuming that you have a properly configured and
capable graphics card.

>  - provide a View that lets me incrementally add the new usabilities,
>      one at a time

That is the default. Unfortunately, you must install CCSM to really be
able to tweak.

> Compiz also had a terminal conflict with cairo-dock, but I ain't gonna write
> that one up!
>
>> I prefer to seperate my metakeys by application level. My apps
>> (firefox, open office) uses the Ctrl key, KDE uses the Alt key, and
>> Compiz uses the Tux key. Why don't you want to use the *nix shortcuts?
>
> Very simply so I don't have to spend time researching what they are. I need you
> to imagine I am some student of computing, who has installed Ubuntu for the very
> first time. I know the Windows keystrokes, so (for example) I select the
> installer's "Windows shortcuts" settings.
>
> I am no student, and I use custom keystrokes all the time. (Just yesterday I
> wrote a script to delete the currently playing XMMS song.) Like you, I need the
> keystrokes to work together in coherent patterns. But I am not a compulsive
> configurer, either...

I have converted over 20 people from Windows to Linux, so I understand
you. However, not one of them has been a big keyboard user, so I have
not run into this problem.

>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/
>
> tx: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/241923
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/241925
>

Nice.

Dotan Cohen

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