A new recruit, at AmiWorks, got Dell Vostro with Ubuntu 11.04 to work on. Being new to Linux he was enjoying the experience but a little while later when he had played all the pre-installed games the excitement of a new OS started diminishing. And he was now in the state of comparing Linux with Windows. He approached me asking for something exciting to do with his Linux box and I obliged.
The most fascinating thing that boggles a new Linux user is the rotating cube virtual desktop arrangement. I exclaimed "Okay, I will show you something, that will make you forget Windows forever". And installed Compiz Config Settings Manager. Since I have not tried Ubuntu, I didn't know that Unity didn't support Compiz. So it broke and left me in a fix.
Now the guy had the opportunity of mocking my statement "Something that will make me forget Windows forever .. aha". Having no previous experience with Natty I could restore the system to the way it was, only with a little help from #ubuntu IRC.
Firstly chose restore to defaults on ccsm (compiz config settings manager) and then fired
on the terminal. This fixed the situation on that computer and should be helpful for anybody else who screws up in a similar manner.
Moral: Don't boast off about ccsm until you have yourself tried it on the new configuration.
The most fascinating thing that boggles a new Linux user is the rotating cube virtual desktop arrangement. I exclaimed "Okay, I will show you something, that will make you forget Windows forever". And installed Compiz Config Settings Manager. Since I have not tried Ubuntu, I didn't know that Unity didn't support Compiz. So it broke and left me in a fix.
Now the guy had the opportunity of mocking my statement "Something that will make me forget Windows forever .. aha". Having no previous experience with Natty I could restore the system to the way it was, only with a little help from #ubuntu IRC.
Firstly chose restore to defaults on ccsm (compiz config settings manager) and then fired
$ unity --reset
on the terminal. This fixed the situation on that computer and should be helpful for anybody else who screws up in a similar manner.
Moral: Don't boast off about ccsm until you have yourself tried it on the new configuration.
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