Comment 10 for bug 63208

Sebastien, I understand what you are saying re: Compiz/Beryl not being supported. But, I think that's a bad position to take. Compiz/Beryl *WORKED* in edgy, and the edgy libwnck packages *have the patches applied*. You can't enable functionality like this in one version, then disable it in the next without users complaining.

Historically, ubuntu has been a really good distro for compiz/beryl. IIRC, there were good instructions for getting this stuff working even before SuSE/Novell had a good non-broken release for it. So if ubuntu is now deciding to abandon that cutting edge advantage over a beauracratic upstream patch policy, I'd say that's a shame.

BTW, google says that there are *A LOT* of users experiencing this same pain, and this launchpad report is not the first place most of them will come (it took some time to find it myself). Put yourself in the user's shoes -- feisty seems terribly broken because fundamental functionality that worked in edgy now no longer works. Spinny-cube functionality is sort of feature #1 for compiz/beryl. If it doesn't work, it makes the rest of the ball sort of useless.

It is hard for most average users to find the secret solution to get it to work in feisty, and the secret solution is really a terrible solution, as you pointed out. This leaves the user with only a couple of options, a) suffer without the feature or b) find a distro that supports the feature.

Another way to put it:

              | Beryl/Compiz Work?
---------------------------------------
fedora | yes
sled | yes
ubuntu | *NO*

I'm not saying don't pursue the upstream patch policy, I'm just begging you to consider doing something [that sounds relatively easy == apply the known patches] about this in the meantime. Please stop the bleeding ;)