In 12.04, install 'gnome-panel', which will add the "Classic Gnome (no effects)" option. Boot into that and it'll give you a metacity window manager environment without compositing. You can verify that metacity compositing is off as so:
$ gconftool-2 -g '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' false -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871972 Title: [i915] Screen display corruption resizing LibreOffice Calc window Acer Aspire 5750-9668 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/871972/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
