Comment 5 for bug 1005629

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Enkouyami (furyhamster) wrote : Re: [FIXED]Unity 3D compiz crashes or malfunctions

Here's what happened:
Since I have no window decorators in Unity 3D when I log in and can't switch window focus, I logged on to Unity 2D.
I opened terminal and typed in 'gtk-window-decorator --replace' and saw that that action never completed.
Next I ran 'unity --reset' to bring up Unity 3D on top of Unity 2D(This always failed in the past), I was surprised that the window decorator came back after is disappeared and I could switch window focus.
I opened ccsm and tried to enable 'GTK Loader' in Utility category. That caused my window boarders to go away and the option was still unchecked. I lost the ability to grab window focus because of that so I logged out.
I loged into Unity 3D and opened one of my bash scripts on my desktop so I could access terminal in a GUI instead the using TTY terminals. I used CTRL + SHIFT + T to open a new tab and interred in 'gtk-window-decorator --replace' then 'unity --reset' and logged out and logged back in and it was fixed. In Unity 3D the 'GTK Loader' in Utility category is still unchecked. Cinnamon and gnome classic session also work.
Unity and cinnamon crashes (not the gtk-window-decorator) and comes back within 5 seconds not very often, usually when My zram swap of 373.9 MiB nears full capacity.