Comment 4 for bug 875564

>>jayprakash

Are you sure you are experiencing the same bug?

How did your desktop's behavior change with each attempt?

For me, only the Unity/Compiz desktop with nvidia is broken.

Nouveau was "working" as well as it ever does, before I removed it and reinstalled nvidia (after a severely botched upgrade to Oneiric and several hours of hacking). Unity 2D is also working for me (it's better than safe mode... a little...)

In other news, on a hunch I enabled the "desktop gears" decoration in compiz. With the gears spinning inside the cube, compiz seems forced to constantly redraw the screen. Thus windows, menus, panels, and notifications are also redrawing.

Unfortunately, the gears are glitched in an Escher-esque way and the cube still flickers the previous side over the current one on rotate (looks like the cube and window rotate, then the window follows you for a moment, then goes back to it's appropriate side) as it was doing before.