Want to turn off some desktop effects

jakev383 · 05-23-2010, 12:49 PM

I like my desktop effects, but there is one in particular that I would like to turn off, but I do not know the name of it.
When I move my mouse to the upper right hand corner, it zooms out and displays all my open windows in a zoomed-out view. I'd like to turn this off, since it's inconveniently close to the close buttons for my windows and I always seem to go too far.
Any help is appreciated!

Simon Bridge · 05-23-2010, 01:43 PM

you have active corners set - sounds like the expo, disable the expo edge setting.
If not, look through the window manager plugins.

ArfaSmif · 05-23-2010, 05:38 PM

It's actually under "window management", "scale" plugin. You can disable the scale plugin or change the "initiate window picker" settings. (I actually like this setting and use it a lot :-) )

jakev383 · 05-23-2010, 06:05 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. Tried turning off the scale plugin, but it still does it.
Did not see the Expo plugin.

ArfaSmif · 05-24-2010, 04:00 AM

When you say "zoomed-out view" what exactly are you describing? An image would be useful perhaps?

jakev383 · 05-24-2010, 06:13 AM

Sure, here's a screenshot. When I moved my mouse to the upper right hand corner, the two terminals were behind the FF window. It zoomed out and arranged them all so that I could see them all and I had to click on one to bring it back to focus so I could do anything.
Here's the image: http://i775.photobucket.com/albums/y...Screenshot.png

ArfaSmif · 05-24-2010, 07:17 AM

Thanks for the screenshot. It looks exactly like the "scale" plugin I use.

Try looking for "TopRight" in your compiz config file. My config file is at
/home/username/.config/compiz/compizconfig/Default.ini . "TopRight" appears under the "scale" plugin in my setup as "as_initiate_all_edge = TopRight" . For example the section of the config file looks like this:-

[scale]
as_initiate_edge =
as_initiate_all_edge = TopRight
as_initiate_output_edge = TopLeft

You might be able to find which plugin is doing the deed this way...

jakev383 · 05-27-2010, 09:02 AM

Figured it out.
By default, compiz on Fedora does not start with the ccp plugin, instead using glib and gconf. I was shutting scale off in ccsm, but it was not actually loading the ccsm settings. I needed to edit /usr/bin/compiz-gtk and change "glib conf" to "ccp" and all is well after that.
Thanks everyone!

Simon Bridge · 05-28-2010, 01:33 AM

Well done for figuring it out and telling everyone your solution. Good work.