Comment 3 for bug 490704

Travis, that's exactly the same command, modulo "sh -c", as what I listed in my "Workaround" section. Of course it works from the command line! (Yes, I tested) There is no need to wrap it in "sh -c" for compiz, because it already executes its commands through a shell.

I don't understand what you were getting at, but the answer is yes.