Compiz bug - automatic disable compositing and GL, window borders lost
Bug #780762 reported by
NetherDarkness
This bug affects 5 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Linux Mint |
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Bug Description
I just downloaded Linux Mint Katya RC in order to test it out in Oracle VM Virtualbox (latest). Installed the guest additions to get compositing, and started playing around with compiz. Trying to enable something like desktop cube causes compiz to crash after it tries to disable desktop wall, and after the crash, all active compiz plugins go inactive. They can be re-activated, so this isn't really a huge problem, but it would be nice to not have these kinds of bugs which can produce panic, since many things like window borders and moving windows suddenly disappear.
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| pazuzuthewise (pazuzuthewise) wrote | #1 |
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It happens also in the stable release of Linux Mint 11.
Tested it from a USB stick, on real, not virtualized hardware.
No crash was announced or evident, but all the plugins became disabled after disabling the desktop wall plugin (and also all their preset options).
Also, after the event, the workspace switcher plugin would exhibit only one desktop, although it was set to show a 2x2 matrix.
This could not be fixed by enabling the same number of desktops from compiz manager. I was then able to access other virtual desktops only by using the expo plugin, which showed the correct number and structure of desktops.
Another weird occurrence was the appearing of a blank window, without content (it was all a solid block with the texture of the gtk theme), with it's name containing "unity" (can't remember the exact name). Using xkill on it would restart all compiz and also the same window. Disabling the window manager plugin from within compiz would make it disappear, together with the window decorations of normal windows.