Comment 11 for bug 1163611

Hi raveit65,

Initially I changed this bug to "invalid", but after reading through the comments I changed it back to "fix committed", as I hadn't updated the initial description with what the actual problem was.

The actual problem exposed in this report was that the backends were not being installed with the correct library suffix. The undefined symbol errors, however, are not a bug. This is because you are attempting to load them as compiz plugins directly. Because they are not compiz plugins, they do not contain the vtable entry point symbol that all compiz plugins have, hence the error message.

If you wish to change the active backend, you need to adjust /etc/compizconfig/config and change the value for [gnome_session] from "backend = gconf" to "backend = $backend" (so long as MATE still exports DESKTOP_SESSION_ID)