I tried Zero's solution of rolling back to the 173 version of the NVidia
Driver using the "Hardware Drivers" configurator. This fixed my problem.
The symptoms I was having as follows:
Configuration/Environment:
1. Compiz
2. Emeral Theme Decorator
3. Cube Rotation, Reflection, and many other "Effects" enabled
Symptom:
Any time I "Maximized" a window the display completely froze. I was
unable to switch terminals and not even Ctrl-Alt-Backspace worked (I had
re-enabled Ctrl-Alt-Backspace using the 'dontzap' command). The only way
to make anything at all happen was to power-off the machine and perform
and hard re-boot.
Of course, re-booting like this tended to corrupt the "Tracker"
indexes. What a mess!
Anyway, rolling back to version 173 of the Nvida driver so far has
fixed the problem. Yay! Thanks Zero!
THIS IS A HORRIBLE BUG! THIS IS THE LAST NVIDIA VIDEO CARD MACHINE I
WILL EVER PURCHASE!
<rant>
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, INTEL/AMD PRODUCE GOOD FLOSS DRIVERS ASAP! I'M
TIRED OF THIS KIND OF THING BECAUSE OF CLOSED-SOURCE CRAPPY DRIVERS! Nvidia,
SERIOUSLY, consider your customers, can't things be better than this? Is this
the best you can do?
</rant>
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random x server freeze (nvidia)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365885
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