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New Application Switcher gone and is now ugly

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When I installed Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2, during live-CD install, I tried out the new application switcher and it worked beautifully. After the installation is complete, the new application switcher is gone. In its place is a ugly grey Windows XP-ish thing.

I am not sure if this is a graphics driver issue, because I enabled nvidia proprietary driver. But other 3D related things looks fine. So how can I get the new application switcher back?

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answered 3 Years ago atereress · Accepted Answer

Hansioux,

This is very likely a driver issue. I had a somewhat similar problem when I installed the NVIDIA drivers from the NVIDIA website in 11.04. Replacing those with the drivers in the nvidia-current package fixed it.

In my case, I dropped to the console (CTRL + ALT + F1), stopped gdm and then re-ran the NVIDIA install script as root, but with the "--uninstall" parameter. After it finished removing that version of the driver, I installed nvidia-current and then rebooted. The eye candy is back (switcher, aero-ish snap, etc.). FYI: I use Gnome 2.3, but I don't think the problem was at that level.

So, in my case:

(from console)

$ sudo su -

# stop gdm

# sh /home/tim/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-285.05.09.run --uninstall

# apt-get install nvidia-current

# reboot