Compiz-core Grid setting dangerous!! <a wicked bug>

[Dale Beaudoin]

This bug is wicked. Going to the the option 'Grid' in CCSM and then unchecking 'Snap Windows Back to Original Size' in the tab 'Edges' will completely wipe out Unity 3D and desktop globally , to any other admin users also.

[Dale Beaudoin (twocamels)]

Work-a-round:

Log on to Unity 2D. CCSM should be reset to default. Go to Unity-Plugin and enable.

[Michael Iles (michael-iles)]

Yes this is awful. Another way to recover is to log out (CTRL-ALT-DEL, because Unity is b0rked), then go to a console (CTRL-ALT-1) and use:

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1/plugins/grid

After that you can log back into your Unity session.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 745159, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.