In chatting with upstream we've found a workaround and also identified it as not an X bug but rather a metacity bug that compiz is not working around properly.
<agd5f> asac: accoridng to google others fixed that problem by disabling metacity compositer gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager false <asac> rock & roll ;) thanks guys <otaylor> bryce: metacity bug, actually. <Sarvatt> watch out for this bug if you're calling something with --replace on karmic with metacity the default WM asac: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/389686 <otaylor> bryce: when it's asked to unmanage the screen it sets the selection owner of the compositor selection to None with a timestamp of CurrentTime, which is newer than the timestamp that compiz is trying to use to replace the window manager and compositing manager selections <bryce> otaylor, wild, ok thanks. <otaylor> See section 2.3.1 of the icccm for the specific recommendation that to give up ownership of a selectio you should use the timestamp you used to acquire it <otaylor> bryce: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530702 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #530702 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530702 ** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) => compiz (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- ati R580 - Aug 2009 & compiz still does not work for me https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399451 You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
