Comment 16 for bug 971462

This popped up again today on my system (Ubuntu 13.10), in the middle of a session, without having just installed any updates or anything. I was able to (temporarily) fix it by running compiz --replace (i.e. I didn't have to change any settings anywhere, just restart the window manager).

However, I forgot to add & at the end of the command, and followed up with ^C to get rid of all the console output. Naturally, after that I was screwed... :P

But "compiz --replace &" in the terminal should be a functioning workaround until a fix is provided. (And a real fix is really needed - this bug makes lots of features of lots of systems, and some entire systems, practically unusable...!)