All Edge bindings are lost on a restart if there is an actual or 'percieved' conflict with edge flip binding

[Doug McMahon]

While I would likely use with the Commands plugin can be seen with a 'supported' plugin
Test cases;
Actual conflict:
set expo plugin to a left or right edge binding, decline to disable the edge flip binding
confirm it works
restart, the binding no longer functions, nor does any other user set edge binding, even if a bottom edge one

Percieved conflict:
Reset the binding, this time use any corner
confirm it works
restart, the binding no longer functions, nor does any other user set edge binding, even if a bottom edge one

To fix:
disable then re-enable the binding
disable the edge flip binding in wall
confirm it works
restart, binding is still functional, as are any other ones

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: compiz 1:0.9.8+bzr3249-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-10.10-generic 3.5.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 19 10:48:57 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120813.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 860375, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Un-duping because, at least here, on 12.04 an edge binding conflict, real or not, does not cause all user set edge bindings to fail on a restart.

So this seems specific to 12.10 (at least here), & is not a 'sometimes' thing. All user set edge bindings except top & bottom will cause the failure on restart if flip left & right binding(s) are enabled in wall or cube

[MC Return (mc-return)]

AFAIK we already fixed this here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~compiz-team/compiz/0.9.10/revision/3707

@all affected:
Could you please try to reproduce this with 0.9.10-dev/trunk and confirm it is fixed ?

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

I don't believe this is an issue anymore in in 0.9+ (raring, saucy.
In any event putting the r3707 in on 13.04 didn't hurt anything, if you all believe you've fixed something then great.

What I did notice concerning wall & edge flipping (pointer) is that it's a one time deal, works once per session. r3707 didn't change that.

What's been true since 12.04 & continues today is that disabling automatic plugin sorting solves many of compiz/unity ill's inc. the above mentioned one. (& moving unityshell above the plugin where issues are found, in this case wall.

[MC Return (mc-return)]

@mc3man:
Strange, I cannot reproduce the Wall-Edge-Flip-Pointer-works-only-once-per-session-bug anymore and r3707 has fixed this to my knowledge...
It would be nice if you could retest trunk.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

On 06/27/2013 08:17 PM, MC Return wrote:
> @mc3man:
> Strange, I cannot reproduce the Wall-Edge-Flip-Pointer-works-only-once-per-session-bug anymore and r3707 has fixed this to my knowledge...
> It would be nice if you could retest trunk.
>
You're correct, all is well with 3707 with this bug & also wall edge
flipping
(one of those stupid mistakes - I only use rotate/1x4, so set up new
user to test wall. However forgot I've modded unity to display Ws
changes in the expo launcher icon on 1x4 instead of 2x2 so didn't
realize I was trying to go right a 2nd time from WS 2 where there is
obviously no right available.
Sorry....

[MC Return (mc-return)]

mc3man, no problem -> we all make mistakes sometimes -> it is part of being human.

Thanks for retesting and please continue to help with testing and bug triaging. Our milestones for 0.9.10 are to be found here, btw:
https://launchpad.net/compiz/+milestone/0.9.10.0