When you are using the 'unity' profile & open preferences in ccsm it's not 'crashing' What's happening is the profile is being switched to the 'Default' profile & then being loaded. This can take quite some time. By default the 'Default' profile does not have the unity plugin enabled, That;s why the 1st. login after he switch doesn't have the plugin enabled, if you had waited for the Default profile to finish loading you would have seen this.
The unity plugin can be enabled in the Default profile & you can continue on as before, except you'll be using the Default profile instead of the unity profile If this has occurred & you didn't rm ect. you can see 2 ways - Start ccsm in a terminal - the 5th line down will be Profile : Default Or go to ~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig/ config . That file will have this in it which translates to Default profile [general_ubuntu] profile = In a new install that file is empty, delete that section & log out/in & you'll go back to the unity profile So I don't quite see a compiz bug here - you opened the preferences which is set to "Default' profile & it loads - whether ccsm should do this may be a bug, may not -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/875400 Title: Unity shell doesn't fully load after crash in compiz settings manager To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/875400/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs