Sunday, 5 July 2009

Kubuntu, Eclipse, Compiz, Nvidia, not the best combination in the world

I work on this laptop I am writing this blog post from, and due to the nature of what I do, I use and IDE, and my personal preference is Eclipse. I also use Kubuntu, it's great cause it 'just works' compared to some distro's I've used over the years, and I'd rather spend my time coding rather than hacking config files to get things going. But I have one issue I can't seem to find a fix for...

Kubuntu comes with Compiz switched on by default, now I like Compiz, it makes the computer do fun stuff, most of which is a complete waste of time, but makes me happy, anyway I can be tap tap tapping away on eclipse and suddenly *kaboom* the screen freezes for a few seconds, and I'm left with this:



Not the best. Anyway I've now switched off compiz(I'm assuming thats the issue) and we'll see how we go, but I do miss my ridiculous effects.....

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kubuntu use kwin and not compiz. Play around in the Desktop properties, there is a place you select what kind of engine kde uses and what kind of setup for it. Still, using compiz instead of kwin is a win, you can install compiz and select it somewhere in the control panel