When I left home last night, I had full functional working 3D desktop effects. Once I added my two 1600x1200 monitors this morning and resized my virtual desktop size past the breaking limit, that all went bye-bye. :( I vaguely remember reading that increasing the desktop size on my video card will automatically disable this wonderful feature. Surprise. It did. Well, at least with the old video driver, it's still smoother than the newer ones. Bummer though. I was really liking all the extra "new OS" bells and whistles. Maybe I can find a work-around someday, but I highly doubt it. EDIT: Here's the URL that discusses the root of the problem (I think it still applies to 8.10, but I'm not certain just yet... will look further): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580891 And some more specific to the Dell Latitude D430: http://www.winchen.de/PHPWIKI/doku.php/public/delld430 Workaround: Switch xorg.conf on bootup depending on whether or not external monito...