Comment 28 for bug 888039

I also am getting this bug after "minutes".

The thing is, it's not actually time. Here is the behaviour I am getting:

When attempting to move a window (ANY window, not just one with transparency) in GNOME Classic using Compiz, the very first time you click the window and drag it around it works fine. After that, any other time you click the window and drag it around, it won't update its position AT ALL unless you keep your cursor in the same position for about 1/4 of a second, at which point it will update.

I tried toggling the lazy option in Compiz's move plugin, but it had no effect.

Then I tried the half-fix posted here by Daniel, and it worked perfectly (though obviously repainting the entire screen on an update is not desirable!) I'm back to using Compiz again. I'll probably just make a shell script wrapper for my games that temporarily switches to Metacity until the program terminates.