Compiz-Fusion "Show-Desktop" screen edge binding not working

Found a workaround:

open gconf-editor

navigate to

 /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/

click on show_desktop_edge and manually enter the string value (check the long description for the possible values).

this worked fine for me

I can confirm the behaviour that Ari has described.
I can also confirm the workaround he has provided, solves the problem.

Thanks Ari!

I can confirm both the bug and Ari's workaround. However, the workaround is not persistent: after logging out or rebooting, the manually set screen corner no longer works. The show_desktop_edge value in /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/ is still there though, but isn't used until you set it again in gconf-editor.

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this is also the case for arbitrary commands. I have configured commands for command 10 and 11 and bound "BottomLeft" and "BottomRight" to those. compiz-settings-manager didn't let me do it. gconf-editor let me do it and it works once. Logging out and back in makes it not work, compiz-settings-manager do not show anything. gconf-editor still shows the values, but they have no effect. Just opening and closing the list editor for the list values of the edge binding (without changing or adding a value) reactivates them for the current session.

seems to be related to the gconf backend, because switching to file based backend solves the issue for me.

I found a better solution around this bug than changing to flat-file backend. Maybe also the real cause for this bug. Open CCSM -> Preferences and uncheck Integration. This setting makes compiz use gnomes default settings for certain things and it doesn't seem to work correctly when using gconf as a backend, so just deactivate it.

it's also worked for me!

Thanks Ari!

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release?
Note that the option in question has moved to "General Settings" in the "General" tab and is called "Show Desktop". I'm not sure if that's the same option as the one you mentioned in the bug's description, but it does set the gconf key for me.
Thanks in advance.

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

Using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). Issue still exists. Setting hot corners in "Show Desktop" in CCSM does not do anything. The gnome default setting of Ctrl-Alt-D persists as the shorcut. Moving the mouse to the set hot corner does not "show desktop".

mniess' fix of unchecking 'Integration' in CCSM preferences is the only way to fix this bug. Not sure what other settings are affected by unchecking this option.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD development release - Maverick Meerkat. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

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