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I'd like some help to fix another unity issue. After last update, my system broke. For example, when I execute a 'ls' command, the screen breaks and does not show anything. Sometimes, just the beggining is shown.

How can I fix it?

I don't want use another X, for now...

Thanks

jordan
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Before removing Compiz you might wanto to try and reset it

1.Press Alt + ctrl + F1

2.Login using your username and password

3.Reset compiz by executing gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1

4.Reset unity , by executing unity --reset

5.Optionally you can reset launcher icons by executing unity --reset-icons

6.Press Alt + ctrl + F7 to get back to login screen. However I recommend a restart by executing sudo reboot. Let us know if it worked.

Cerdits to Web-E

To remove compiz and compiz packages type this in a terminal:

sudo apt-get purge compiz compiz-plugins-main-default libcompizconfig0

Warning: Removing compiz also removes the packages unity & ubuntu-desktop.

Warning: Removing libcompizconfig0 also removes ubuntu-tweak.

Thus you will lose the ability to log into the unity or unity-2d desktops.

Source

More info here: How can I remove and re-install Unity?

And here: Ubuntu 12.04. Compiz Failure. Computer has nothing to use

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LnxSlck
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You can try Ubuntu Gnome. It doesn't use Compiz and still has as much, of not more eye candy as Ubuntu.

I have a multi boot system, and Ubuntu Gnome is one of them.

Christopher
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Instead of trying to delete compiz, which will have many dependencies issues with Unity and Gnome etc, how about just going ahead to install other Window Manager? The last time I tried to uninstall / delete Unity/compiz, I ended having to reinstall the entire OS.

For example: Xubuntu:

apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.

Or you can try i3, awesome, lxde etc.

And then at the login screen, select the appropriate windows manager - making sure you avoid Gnome, Unity or compiz.

After logging in, "ps -ef" and you can easily verify that compiz is not running.

Peter Teoh
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