"Magic Lamp" effect makes window black before animating it

[Felix Oghină]

I have installed compiz-plugins-extra and ccsm and selected Magic Lamp for the minimize effect. Now, when minimizing a window it first turns black, then it's animated, which looks really ugly. Restoring (unminimizing) works fine, on the other hand. Here are two images, one is a screenshot of my minimize animation settings in ccsm and the other one is taken during such a broken animation:

http://imgur.com/a/L5V0T

This happens with all applications I have tried (nautilus, thunderbird, pidgin, gnome-terminal, etc.), so it doesn't seem to be application-specific.

Some system info:

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10

apt-cache policy compiz-plugins-extra
compiz-plugins-extra:
  Installed: 1:0.9.8.6-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:0.9.8.6-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.8.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Olupot Douglas (olupotd3)]

What you need: Compiz 0.5.5~git20070921+3v1ubuntu0 installed into your system, unsatisfied soul , gedit, ghex2
note that : You have to be root to modify the following files:
1. Use Hex editor to open “/usr/lib/compiz/libanimation.so”
2. Find “magic_lamp_max_waves”, look for following “3“, change “3″ to “0″
3. Save, Close (f2 to save,ctrl+x to close)
4. Use Text Editor to open “/usr/share/compiz/animation.xml”
5. Find “magic_lamp_max_waves”, look for following “3“, change “3″ to “0″
6. Save, Close
7. Restart GDM if the 3D desktop is currently running.
8. Set Minimization effect to “Magic Lamp”, change Max Waves to “0″ using gconf-editor.

Ref: http://tutafuta.com/2009/05/15/mac-os-x-magic-lamp-effect-in-linux-using-compiz/

[Mina (842mono)]

The bug doesn't happen anymore. (a little too late to report this)

[Mina (842mono)]

^meant it doesn't happen any more on my machine