forwarded 476492 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526770 thanks
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 15:44 -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > When I disable compositing using > > gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool false > > (after enabling it by running > > gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true > > ) the screen becomes corrupted. It shows outlines of the windows that > were shown, but not their contents. The cursor changes as appropriate > and I can control the applications using the keyboard, but the windows > aren't updated. > > I wasn't able to determine how to fix the problem, so I switched to a > different virtual console and killed x-session-manager. > > I think it should be possible to continue running normally after > disabling compositing. Agreed, unfortunately, X doesn't make this easy. There's an upstream fix which makes this behave better, hopefully it will be backported to a 2.22 minor release. If not, I guess we can apply the patch ourselves. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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