Have to restart X for config changes?

[scottme]

I am running compiz on Ubuntu 7.10 on an IBM ThinkPad T60p (ATI graphics), using XGL.

I am positive that when I first got this working, I could make settings changes in ccsm and they would take effect immediately.
Now I find that no config changes I make take effect until I restart X.
Any ideas how I can restore the earlier behaviour?

[scottme]

So how does this work for you? If you enable or disable a plugin, do you see the result immediately? If you change a background image, does it take effect immediately?

[adamk]

If compiz is compiled with inotify support (which is the case with every linux distribution I know of that packages binary versions of compiz) changes will happen nearly immediately. Have you changed versions of compiz recently? Perhaps compiled your own?

Adam

[scottme]

If compiz is compiled with inotify support (which is the case with every linux distribution I know of that packages binary versions of compiz) changes will happen nearly immediately. Have you changed versions of compiz recently? Perhaps compiled your own?


I am using the current version from the Ubuntu Gutsy repository:

mark@MEST60P:~$ apt-cache show compiz | grep -i Version
Version: 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1.1
Version: 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1
mark@MEST60P:~$ compiz.real --version
compiz 0.6.1

[adamk]

Then I have no idea why it would suddenly stop working as expected, unfortunately.

Adam