compiz fails to start due to application in 'minimize to tray' mode

[jonj]

Binary package hint: compiz

The python application Wikidpad
http://groups.google.com/group/wikidpad/web/home
has an option to 'minimize to tray'. With the application in this mode, minimized or not, if I try to enable compiz via the 'Appearance' menu, the area of the screen occupied by wikidpad flickers for some time, after which the message 'could not enable desktop effects comes up. If I load the wikidpad application after compiz is started, it works fine (except for user switching)

A related problem which I think is caused by the same bug is that if I switch users while compiz is enabled and wikidpad is running, the desktop crashes when I try to switch back to it.

Wikidpad can be installed by downloading the source WikidPad-1.9beta18-src.zip from the above web page and running something like

cd /usr/local/share/wikidpad
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/share/wikidpad/lib
python /usr/local/share/wikidpad/WikidPad.py $1

Minimize to tray is under 'Wiki / Options / User interface'

regards,
Jon

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 13 08:55:06 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: compiz 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/bin:/home/username/bin/home/
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: compiz
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[jonj (jonjackson)]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I can't be of much further help here - I've been a bit unlucky with hardware (graphics card) failures recently and neither of my ubuntu machines can support compiz now anyway, with or without wikidpad!

regards

[jonj (jonjackson)]

I can report this problem no longer exists with 9.04/Jaunty.

I have Jaunty running on the same machine as before, and compiz is supported. Also with a later version of the application (Wikidpad 2.03b), compiz restarts fine with this application in minimise-to-tray mode.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.