Group Plugin crashes Animations in Compiz

[Tim Tierney]

Binary package hint: compiz

Ubuntu 9.10

This is just a visual thing, not a big deal. But I noticed that if I enable Tab & Groups Window plugin in Compiz, Some animations fail. For example fading and dodging. Complete restart of Compiz is required to repair.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 29102e0a5c695caa811ca170fcbefaab
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Date: Tue Nov 3 17:35:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
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[Tim Tierney (timtierney)]

I've discovered the exact cause for the animation failure.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Activate Animations plugin.
2. Activate Group And Tab Windows plugin.
3. Tab two windows together.
4. Hover over the title bar of grouped windows and drag a Window away causing them to un-tab.
5. Animations stop working.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

Now open your file manager, navigate to your /var/crash directory and open the crash report you wish to submit.If this fails you will have to open a terminal and file your report with 'ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash' where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report. If you get an error that you aren't allowed to access this report you will have to file it with 'sudo ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash'.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.