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Asked by Christian Hauskov

Yesterday I installed ubuntu 11.04 beta 1 to try it out. To change the appearence a little, I installed ccsm and tried to change from the wall to the cube switching thingy. When I did, I was prompted to disable something(I admit it was stupid) or continue using the wall. I chose to disable, which turned out to be a bad choise.

First I lost the borders of all my windows and when I restartet, the top bar in unity was gone as well as the left side menu. To make things worse, it is not possible to use keyboard shortcuts to access anything(nothing happens when i press alt+f2. super etc.).

Hope someone can help me reset the ccsm settings, so that unity will work again.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

there is a folder:

~/.config/compiz

which you could rename then reboot, may help.

I also recommend you log a bug. Natty is NOT ready and NOT stable and you WILL get issues like this a lot. If you want a stable OS then use Maverick, if you want a half made OS and are happy to stomach crashes and bugs to log bugs to get the OS ready for release then by all means use Natty.

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

Mass of reported bugs due to switching plugins.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2011-April/000817.html
If you preference unstable, test Beta-2 and report or confirm bugs.
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/beta

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Christian Hauskov (christianhauskov) said : 		#3

Thanks Sam_, that solved my question.