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need to disable “visual effects” to get some old X apps to work in Ubuntu

This is Ubuntu 9.04 (x86_64). I had Visual Effects turned on because I have a newish nVidia card, using the proprietary nVidia drivers. Trying to use IBM’s “Storage Manager 10″ aka SANtricity, you get just blank windows for some of the windows. The workaround is System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects -> None

Now the windows show up in all their asstastic X11 motif glory.

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One Response to “need to disable “visual effects” to get some old X apps to work in Ubuntu”

  1. Glenn Says:
    September 9th, 2009 at 4:08 am

    I’ve seen this before, especially with some recent java based kvm tools. Its especially unfortunate that the issue tends to bring X to its knees, somethimes rendering the entire system unusable…

    On the other hand jaunty is so nice normally :)

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