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robsoft
Asked: 2010-08-21 03:59:47 +0800 CST

Is there a terminal/command-line interface to the 'Appearance Preferences' dialog?

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Hopefully the title sums it up, but I'm looking for a way of being able to switch the Appearance Preferences' Visual Effects option to 'None', from a terminal/script (and optionally later to be able to switch back to 'Normal', though that's not such a big deal).

I'm a total Ubuntu-noob, so I can't tell you which window manager/widget-set/whatever I am using (Gnome 2.30.0?). It's on Ubuntu 10.4 patched up to date as of late July 2010.

command-line appearance

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  1. Best Answer

    If all you need to do is to disable and enable effects this is fairly easy done with

    metacity --replace

    to disable effects and 

    compiz --replace

    to enable effects. This is scriptable too.

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