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hello i installed compiz manager and played around with some setting to get flames on windows when i close them, but the manager didnt have that option. but the main thing is i had the snap function before i installed the manager. how to i go about restoring it to defaults.

i have the nvidia cuda developer driver installed and i have just set the Visual Effects to normal.

Is there a way to restore the defaults?

thanks for any help!

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In CompizConfig Settings Manager in settings you can reset your profile, as well as export and import settings. You have probably enabled a module that conflicts with window snap like wobbly windows. CompizConfig Settings Manager usually asks you what to do when conflicts occur. Be careful with those modules, look at their options and functionality first before enabling them, otherwise you can end up with just your wallpaper and nothing else as your graphical interface. In that case you can reset the compiz settings to default with the following command via terminal: gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz

The effect you are searching for is in the package compiz-fusion-plugins-extra which is not installed by default.

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wobbly windows was the only thing outside of snap that i wanted.. noooooo... – Alex Apr 4 '12 at 1:02
That does not mean, that you can't use wobbly windows anymore, you just have to configure it right. Wobbly windows provides a key to enable snapping. Default key is shift, but you can invert the whole snapping behavior. That should pretty much recover what you expect from window snapping. – LiveWireBT Apr 6 '12 at 14:50
what do you need on to have snapping working? i did the gconftool above, that did rest the settings but didnt work for the snapping. – Alex Apr 6 '12 at 21:25
Disable the window snapping module, activate wobbly windows, press shift when moving windows and see how they snap to othr windows and edges. You can invert this behavior as I have already written. Pressing shift will then deactivate window snapping. – LiveWireBT Apr 7 '12 at 2:11

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