Comment 4 for bug 1451171

Ok, this is weird.

I was changing livewallpaper plugins (via the livewallpaper-indicator) and rebooting each time to see if the others (Noise is the one I use) were working or not. After trying them all I returned to Noise and rebooted again and - voilà - it works! :-|

And dmesg shows no error:

rick@laptop:~$ dmesg | grep livewallpaper
rick@laptop:~$

I don't know if this is permanent (I hope so), anyway here's the data you asked me:

The wallpaper in use is "Noise".
Gradient clock, Galaxy, and Nexus all work fine.
Circles and Photoslide start after a handful of seconds (almost 10 or so).

Graphic cards:

rick@laptop:~$ sudo lshw -c display
[sudo] password for rick:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GF108M [GeForce GT 540M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:50 memory:d0000000-d0ffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff memory:b0000000-b1ffffff ioport:2000(size=128) memory:d1000000-d107ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:48 memory:d1400000-d17fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:3000(size=64)