Comment 38 for bug 1415195

The PPA you linked has a compiz package with a version number less than the one on my system.

I used backportpackage to get the vivid version into a personal PPA for my utopic system and installed that. The issue persists. Here is my new apt-cache policy compiz:

compiz:
  Installed: 1:0.9.12.0+15.04.20141219-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.10.1~ppa1
  Candidate: 1:0.9.12.0+15.04.20141219-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.10.1~ppa1
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.12.0+15.04.20141219-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.10.1~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/andrewrk/misc/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.9.12+14.10.20140918-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages