Workarounds:
(a) Plug your monitor in before logging in; or
(b) Kill and restart nautilus.
Given that the desktop selection rectangle still works while the
black/flickering is happening around it, it appears the only thing
that's broken is nautilus' wallpaper logic.
** Summary changed:
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Also not a compiz bug. The problem still happens if I replace compiz
with metacity.
** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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yeah I moved it to mesa until I've verified with the older version, and
it's still happening even with -intel + mesa 11.2
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Well I used to maintain compiz so have a rough idea.
The desktops is just a window from nautilus that is composited by
compiz. The bug probably lays between those. Not Mesa.
** Changed in: mesa (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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Someone who knows better how the background is drawn on unity/compiz
should probably comment what changed. With -intel X driver it's still
the same, so defaulting to modeset X driver didn't cause this.
** Also affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects:
Confirmed. In my case the HDMI display rendered correctly but while
plugged in, the desktop on the laptop screen flickered badly (cycling
through triple buffers without any glClear()).
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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Status: New => Confirmed
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