Unity

Dash and indicators invisible when compositing is set in Metacity

Bug #708491 reported by Fabien Tassin
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Bug Description

Unity is not usable enough for me to use it for more than a few minutes, but I keep trying so I often switch between the Classic and Desktop mode. In Classic mode, I use Metacity with compositing enabled. Because of that, when I'm using Unity, Dash and all the indicators are totally broken (they are invisible).

Disabling compositing for Metacity in gconf make it work. Compiz seems to be importing that.

gconf key: /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote :

Fabien, the dash and indicators are features of Unity, which itself is a compiz-plugin. Compiz is a window-manager, like metacity. But metacity does not have the ability to load compiz-plugins, thus you will never be able to see them if you're running metacity instead of compiz.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Won't Fix
status: Won't Fix → Invalid
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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote :

Ups, forget that I mentioned indicators there. They are separate of course.

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Fabien Tassin (fta) wrote :

Mirco, I think you misunderstood me. I'm not talking about using Unity with Metacity.

I said that in Classic Mode, i'm using Metacity with compositing.
In Desktop Mode, so with Compiz+Unity, both Dash and the indicators are broken (invisible, except maybe for their shadow).
The reason is that I have the /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager key enabled in gconf.
If i disable this key and restart the Desktop Mode, both Dash and the Indicators are visible, as expected.

I can reproduce it easily, and i expect this to be a problem for anyone moving from "Metacity with compositing" to Unity.

I'm using nvidia-current, in case it matters.

Fabien Tassin (fta)
Changed in unity:
status: Invalid → New
Mirco Müller (macslow)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote :

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Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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