Compiz loses commands from 'commands' plugin after reboot

[Joschi Poschi]

I have set a few commands in the 'commands' plugin in CCSM, but evertime I restart my computer Compiz loses/deletes/overwrites them so that I would have to enter them everytime I boot up my computer.

[BryanFRitt (bryanfritt)]

I once had a problem where if I skipped an entry, it'd lose them. (hadn't retest on current version; might be related?)

[Shane Synan (digitalcircuit)]

This problem affects me as well, although my settings sometimes survived a reboot. As I can reproduce this, I'd be happy to provide any more debug information if needed.

For now, here's a workaround (if you use GNOME):
* Open 'System Settings'
* Open the 'Keyboard' settings tile
* Click the 'Shortcuts' tab
* Click the '+' button at the bottom of the list, and add as many shortcuts as you want.
(this has the bonus of working even when Unity crashes, so you can set up a shortcut to run 'unity --replace' to get back)

[Joschi Poschi (joschiposchi)]

This annoying bug is still present. I even did a clean install of 12.10 but it's like before. Everytime I log out/restart compiz "forgets" all commands I put in before.
As a workaround I use a script to set the commands everytime I log in but that can't be the solution to this.

Please can someone fix this?

[Joschi Poschi (joschiposchi)]

Still present in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr).

[Joschi Poschi (joschiposchi)]

Now the commands are lost at every start of compizconfig-settings-manager.

[rac (justwtf)]

bump, same here on a fresh 14.04 installation. Happy to assist with debugging.

[Nicolas Krzywinski (nsk7even)]

FINALLY I found a bug describing exactly the problem I have on all three machines I have running on trusty - yeah!
Two machines were upgraded from precise, one of them was installed freshly - so this seem to not be the cause.

Additionally I had problems with the "system settings > keyboard > shortcuts" as they kept resetting as well (maybe provoked by ccsm? cause it seems that those commands/hotkeys are tried to sync between them? ... only guessing ...)

More facts:
- commands and hotkeys do survive boots, but seem to be reset by ccsm (not 100% sure that it is ccsm that resets them, but they definitely are not reset at every reboot!)
- exporting/importing settings with ccsm purges commands but not hotkeys in both full or partial export modes
- opening ccsm show blank hotkeys until the ccsm window is moved with alt+mouse or one hotkey is edited, then they appear all at once, suddenly (but this may be only optics)
- after importing settings with ccsm it is finally possible to reactivate the hotkey/command combination (with entering the commands from scratch, cause they are lost now as described above) because if they stopped working I did not managed to get them back to work at all!! Though they are filled out within the commands plugin settings in ccsm...

Any fix or workaround on this would be really great.

@joschiposchi: how do you set the commands via script?

[Nicolas Krzywinski (nsk7even)]

Oh I forgot: I am using gnome-flashback session

Versions:
Compiz 0.9.11
Kernel 3.13.0-24-generic

[Nicolas Krzywinski (nsk7even)]

Just a question to the audience:
I noticed that the gnome-session is not destroyed completely after logging off since the upgrade to 14.04. May it be possible that logging into such a "dead session" (which works, only some applications complains of being double started) makes the hotkeys crash?