Easystroke problem when using compiz Paint fire plugin

[lovinglinux]

Binary package hint: easystroke

Easystroke has a compiz Piant fire plugin integration, so when you activate the mouse gesture you can track the mouse movement on the screen. The normal behavior is to clear the fire painted after releasing the activation button, without the need to press Shift+Super+c. But since recent updates on Karmic it is not clearing the fire from the screen, so you need to do it manually, which defeats the purpose of the mouse gesture application.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 16 21:16:42 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: easystroke 0.4.9-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
SourcePackage: easystroke
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2553): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Tom Jaeger (thjaeger)]

Easystroke does send out the clear command, I think the problem is that compiz never processes it. IIRC, the compiz main loop is coded in such a way that compiz only processes commands sent by DBus if it is idle, so it never gets to clearing the screen when it is too busy drawing the fire.

[Allis Tauri (allista)]

The workaround is to turn off "Sync To VBlank" in General Options in compiz settings. Yet i do not know if it has any side effects on performance or system load.

[Ramón Rocha (ramon.rocha)]

Still an issue in 10.10 and confirming the workaround.

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