This relates to lack of hardware compositing/3D effects on older hardware .. I'm still using an ancient GeForce 5200 card (motherboard just refuses to quit). Shade/fade effects in 14.04 are exceedingly slow because I am assuming rendering is being done in software w/nouveau. With the nVidia binary drivers login works but the desktop never appears..
I stumbled on to the suggestion of installing "Gnome Flashback" w/metacity in another forum. ( http://askubuntu.com/questions/450555/very-slow-graphics-performance- after-upgrade-12-04-14-04 ) I wass pleasantly surprised to see the "old" gmome desktop restored, plus all of the benefits of the software from the new release. I will recommend this transition to anyone who is holding on to using old hardware. Workaround for old menus: "sudo apt-get install gnome-panel" Log out and choose "Gnome (metacity)" as the session type for the next log in ..FYI for good measure I had also removed a lot of the preference (.) files from my profile before I started the new window manager. Once I was running metacity I then installed the v173 nVidia binary drivers and am now back in business..another computer saved from landfill, plus a possible workaround for many old Windows XP computers that would otherwise get trashed. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668415 Title: Movement of Unity launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/668415/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
