vuescan doesn’t work on gnome 3

the vuescan scan­ning soft­ware doesn’t like gnome 3…or, more accur­ately, isn’t liked by gnome 3. it won’t start. rather annoy­ing. i’m using linux mint but the same happens with ubuntu and many other distros. turns out that compiz is inter­fer­ing with it being dis­played cor­rectly. install the compiz set­tings manager, as root, with

apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

when that’s done run, as your regular user,

ccsm

this’ll grind away for a little while and then present you with the tweak­ables. scroll down and uncheck the ‘Window Dec­or­a­tion’ option. vuescan should now launch correctly.