Bug#476492: Disabling compositing breaks

[Sven Arvidsson]

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
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