Compiz-F breaks, lose window transparencies

[mikeserv]

Apparently at random, Compiz-Fusion breaks - kinda. Basically all that happens is that the transparencies that are set up in CF quit working, while all of the other effects keep on rolling. It sometimes takes me a moment or two to notice that it's broken again. When that happens there is an easy fix, I click on the taskbar icon (I'm using fusion-icon) and select "Reload Window Manager" and it all goes back to normal. But it's still kind of annoying, especially if I have any tabbed window groupings setup at the time, because reloading undoes all of that.

Has anyone else experienced this problem and maybe isolated the issue?

-Mike

[smartboyathome]

Try running compiz fusion in a terminal (using compiz --replace), and then stop it when this happens again. Post the output here.

[mikeserv]

It does this right after starting it:
compiz --replace
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: no 'text' plugin with ABI version '20070902' loaded

/usr/bin/compiz.real (ring) - Warn: No compatible text plugin found.
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
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/usr/bin/compiz.real (snow) - Info: Loaded Texture snowflake.png



And this when it breaks:


/usr/bin/compiz.real (group) - Warn: No compatible text plugin loaded.



-Mike

Edit: I put the code inside the [CODE] tags.

[mikeserv]

I enabled the text plugin, and that may have fixed it - I'm not yet sure. At least I'm not getting any more, "Warn: No compatible text plugin loaded" messages. But I'm still not sure what the handler deal is...

-Mike

Edit: It didn't fix it. The windows still break sometimes.

[Forlong]

Please post the output of dpkg -l | grep compiz and use the forum's CODE tag please (# button)

[mikeserv]

Output:
ii compiz-core 0.5.5~git20071006+3v1ubuntu0 OpenGL window and compositing manager
ii compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.5.2~git20071006+3v1ubuntu0 Collection of Compiz Fusion plugins for Compiz - Extra
ii compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.5.2~git20071007+3v1ubuntu0 Collection of Compiz Fusion plugins for Compiz - Main
ii compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial 0.0.2~git20070921+3v1ubuntu0 Collection of UNOFFICIAL fusion plugins for Compiz
ii compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported 0.5.2~git20071006+3v1ubuntu0 Collection of plugins for Compiz - Unsupported
rc compiz-gtk 0.3.6-1ubuntu13 OpenGL window and compositing manager - Gtk window dec
ii compiz-plugins 0.5.5~git20071006+3v1ubuntu0 OpenGL window and compositing manager - plugins
ii compizconfig-settings-manager 0.6.99~git20071005+3v1ubuntu0 Plugin and configuration tool - Compiz Fusion Project
ii libcompizconfig0 0.5.2~git20070909+3v1ubuntu3 Settings library for plugins - Compiz Fusion Project
ii python-compizconfig 0.5.2~git20070903+3v1ubuntu0 Python bindings for the Compiz Configuration System

P.S. What do you mean by "# button"?

[Forlong]

At least your packages are not mixed, so it must be an issue with them (they are bleeding edge, you know).

Consider switching to the stable packages by Amaranth: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=536149

(by "# button" I meant the one you use when making a post to get the CODE tags, but it seems like you found it :))

[mikeserv]

Maybe it's emerald?

dpkg -l | grep emerald
ii emerald 0.5.2~git20071006+3v1ubuntu0 Decorator for Compiz and Beryl
ii emerald-themes 0.5.2~git20070812+3v1ubuntu0 Package of themes for Emerald
ii libemeraldengine0 0.5.2~git20071006+3v1ubuntu0 Decorator engines for Emerald

-Mike

P.S. And I never found a "#" button, I just tried to quote you and found that you had embedded your code within " [ CODE ] and [ / CODE ] " tags (without the spaces, of course).

[Forlong]

Maybe it's emerald?
Maybe. I don't know, frankly, because I don't use those packages. I recommend using the backported ones from the guide linked above.


P.S. See attachment for the # button. :)