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I can't find a solution for my problem online:

I'm running Unity 2D in Ubuntu 11.10 and want to enable compiz effects. I installed compiz config settings manager, and Fusion-Icon, but when I start Fusion-Icon nothing happens. When I execute it from terminal it stucks at lines like "setting update 'command'" or "setting update 'next_key'"

I already set the whitelist for the panel to 'all'.

Anyone knows what I'm missing? Thanks in advance!

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Try Displex. It provides the same options as the Fusion Icon, and works with Unity/AppIndicators.

(It will also work in most other desktop environments where you can run compiz).

Note, if it does not run try the following:

I installed the deb and tried starting DisPlex from the app menu but nothing
happened. So I ran "indicator-displex" from terminal. At some point it showed
"Value error: gconf key /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop has no value"
so I had to manually add a value and typed
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop" --type bool true
ran it again and got the same error for
/apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled,
so the same procedure and that was it.

Taken from Schubibuntu's comment.

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Thanks, I tried that and it worked. Although I had to solve some smaller problems that I'd like to post for later visitors: – Schubibuntu Oct 23 '11 at 6:47
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I installed the deb and tried starting DisPlex from the app menu but nothing happened. So I ran "indicator-displex" from terminal. At some point it showed "Value error: gconf key /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop has no value" so I had to manually add a value and typed gconftool-2 --set "/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop" --type bool true ran it again and got the same error for /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled, so the same procedure and that was it. So again, thanks Roland ;-) – Schubibuntu Oct 23 '11 at 6:54
@Schubibuntu: glad to help :D! You can edit those details into my answer :) – RolandiXor♦ Oct 23 '11 at 11:33

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