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Archery

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Registered: 2013-10-05

Posts: 11

Gnome 3 compiz window trail and no mouse pointer

Hello archers!

I installed compiz-core following the arch wiki for compiz, with the other recommended packages. I have gnome 3, so I installed the gnome-session-compiz.
When I log into the gnome/compiz session and run compiz --replace ccp (it doesn`t quite work without the ccp), all the effects of compiz works, however there are trails whenever I move a windows or box select on the desktop. My mouse cursor is invisible too.

I have intel video card with xorg-video-intel driver installed.

Any Ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks!

Last edited by Archery (2015-01-12 00:36:58)

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 2,005

Re: Gnome 3 compiz window trail and no mouse pointer

I'm fairly positive that Compiz is incompatible with Mutter in GNOME 3.  If you insist on having Compiz then the Xfce desktop environment paired with compiz-manjaro from the AUR works perfectly on the 3 machines I run it on.  Xfce is a light-weight desktop and is similar to GNOME 2.  A bit of tweaking here and there and it's sexy too.