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Aero snap feature not working on install, but worked on Live CD

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http://askubuntu.com – I've recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop. I tried the Live CD and the aero snap feature worked fine. Unfortunately, once I installed the OS onto my machine the aero snap feature no longer works. I've tried different UI sessions i.e. Unity and Unity-2D. Tried installing/removing graphic drivers. My graphics card is Nvidia Geforce GT435M. (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 02/19/2012 – Made popular on 02/19/2012

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Future of QT and KDE 1 year 40 weeks ago

Wait a minute... Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't Windows Vista/7 in Aero mode render everything with the GPU? And it works fine for gaming, provided you have an expensive gaming-oriented graphics card (which you need for gaming these days anyway).

I've got a quite old NVIDIA graphic card and I with installed restricted drivers from Settings panel (as also shown in this thread).

➜ ~ lspci 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] (rev a1)

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