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[El Guru (Al)]

What the heck does Desktop Effects do besides mess everything up?   I had enabled it when I first started with Ubuntu and always wondered why everything was so crappy looking and scrolling in Fx was very choppy.  I also had an annoying thick border around my windows and menus. I went through and disabled it and what a difference.  I am back to running in 1440x900 (had to drop down to 1152x864 before as everything was so crappy looking) and I can see a big difference with the font now that I did Nogg3r5 second trick.

[Pieter]

Never used desktop effects myself. It just slows down your PC.

[Nogg3r5]

I think its just there to really F*** everything up, I enabled it and then spent ages trying ot disable it, the windows all broke

[El Guru (Al)]

I think its just there to really F*** everything up, I enabled it and then spent ages trying ot disable it, the windows all broke

My thoughts exactly.

[Nogg3r5]

I think its just there to really F*** everything up, I enabled it and then spent ages trying ot disable it, the windows all broke

My thoughts exactly.

This could explain a lot though. I think we both have custom xorg.conf files dont we? It clearly says...

CAUTION: Feisty has something called Desktop Effects which can reconfigure your xorg.conf file automatically. If you manually edit the file Desktop Effects may not work properly. (Always make a copy of the xorg.conf file before editing. cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.A)

[El Guru (Al)]

I think so, if that was what I had to modify to allow me to run Ubuntu in 1440x900

[Nogg3r5]

If I have chance/remember later ill try it with a standard xorg.conf file and see what happens

[Ryan Wagner]

The desktop effects are cool at first, but you'll probably end up disabling them as they quickly become unnecessary. As Pieter said, it just slows down the computer.