Compiz just broke

[soulxflare]

This is an interesting problem. I got home from work, ran the updates that were available, then ran "GL Desktop." At this point Compiz crashed, and the system slowed to the point of being unusable. I use CTRL-ALT-BKSP to get back the the GDM window and reboot. Now whenever I try to enable Compiz, the system starts to crawl. Not sure what I did, but if anyone has any ideas to get Compiz back up and running, I would be eternally grateful.

[fib1807]

Compiz wouldn't have broken if u hadn't done something wrong.I'm an absolute noob but what I could tell u is
use

sudo apt-get remove compiz

and then

re-install compiz frm Add/Remove.

[soulxflare]

Thanks for the reply fib, but I already did that three times. I ran "sudo apt-get remove --purge compiz* libcompizconfig* -s" to find all the packages for compiz and removed them all with apt-get. Each time I re-install, and try to re-enable Compiz, it crashes. I know things just don't break by themselves, but maybe it was an update from today?

[fib1807]

Alright

[gettinoriginal]

This happened to me today after downloading updates, at the login screen, I selected options, changed my session to xclient (sp), and then logged in, and all is fine.

[soulxflare]

I seem to have gotten it working, more-or-less. I removed the package "compiz" (all the others were related to compiz-fusion, so I figured that was a deprecated package), and immediately things started to speed up. I then rebooted and logged in using xclient script as gettinoriginal suggested, and everything seems back to normal now minus the fact that I don't have compiz running on startup. I am going to add it to the sessions in a few minutes, but am curious to what runtime parameters to use. I think that --indirect-rendering should be in there since my video card is an ATI Radeon 9200SE, but are there any others that may improve performance?