What does your desktop look like?

YouTube · Postby **dedanna1029** » 12 May 2011, 15:32

Of course, if one has desktop effects or any kind of 3D on, whatever mouse cursor theme one has going on won't show up anyway. It will always be that dumb black cursor. :p

Postby **viking60** » 12 May 2011, 21:06

You can change the Cursor theme in the tweak tool under Interface->Cursor theme

YouTube · Postby **dedanna1029** » 13 May 2011, 00:29

Then it goes back to the default when you load compiz. It doesn't keep the cursor theme when in that mode. I have a cursor theme loaded (see above pics in this thread); but when compiz loads, it goes to that one you have in that last pic.

Postby **viking60** » 13 May 2011, 10:30

Great! Finally Compiz works without crashing thank you for telling me.
Who gives a damn about the cursor anyway...

YouTube · Postby **dedanna1029** » 13 May 2011, 15:51

Me! I gotta have color/shape coordination all 'round! Perfect desktop! I expect no less! And it should always adhere to what I tell it to do!

:lol:

Postby **viking60** » 13 May 2011, 16:01

Yeah my wife tells me the same - probably a female thing :think:

I am much like Gnome3 I don't do everything I am told either :snooty:

You are just beeing conservative here. Start embrasing the new technology and get in there to improve it. Compiz is out Mutter is in.
I tell you that stuff will grow on you, and in 10 years you will be screaming and cursing at Gnome4 wanting your good ol' Gnome3 back. :-D

YouTube · Postby **dedanna1029** » 13 May 2011, 16:36

If it were more customizable like compiz (CCSM), I would. Also, if it weren't forced on me on startup, I'd appreciate it more. My (very) aging and fickle hardware doesn't like it. So, for me, 3D being forced on me like that, it can bite me.

Postby **viking60** » 13 May 2011, 17:58

I don't understand? I thought your problem was that you could not get the 3d?

YouTube · Postby **dedanna1029** » 13 May 2011, 23:22

I can get it. I crash when the desktop loads if it's in startup though. When I start it manually, I'm fine. That is, if the graphics card decides to cooperate with me at the time. The heat that's here right now from the weather isn't helping much. As I said, my hardware is aging and fickle. I don't put into startup any more than what's absolutely necessary, and compiz, or any other 3D type stuff is too heavy for startup for me right now. Manually on for short bursts at a time, that's fine. In startup I'll crash on login.

Postby **viking60** » 14 May 2011, 00:50

Hmm I wonder... Since the last kernel update my box is getting extremely hot too. I just came back to a box and the Graphics card was over 80 d Celcius. I removed the side panel and directed a fan to it.

YouTube · Postby **dedanna1029** » 14 May 2011, 03:22

Not surprising. I also wonder on the nvidia drivers they're putting out these days.

My card, however, is some four years old. Even with solidly running it on Linux, I think, it's still aging, and is showing its age. Unfortunately too, I think, so is my PSU, which is 8 years old come August - it's the original one that came with this machine.

Postby **viking60** » 14 May 2011, 08:49

Same here Gforce 9400 GT older than 5 years. and the box is older.

I wanted to throw it away - but it came to new life with Linux. And with Arch it is my fastest box now. Faster then the i7 box!

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