Comment 13 for bug 1159430

I tried running with gnome-settings-daemon drawing the background and show-desktop-icons set to false so that I could see a pretty background even if I had to give up icons on the desktop. Unfortunately, I found that in that configuration Compiz frequently freezes when I close or minimize a window: the system stops responding to mouse input and I need to switch to another virtual terminal and kill my session. Actually the freezes happen whether or not gnome-settings-daemon is drawing the background: they are a consequence of setting show-desktop-icons to false. So now I've set show-desktop-icons to true and have no background again, alas.