[compiz] Compiz 8.6 on openSuSE 11.0 -- Success! But need help with a few issues.

[Danny Baumann]

Am Mittwoch, den 19.05.2010, 10:05 +0200 schrieb Christian Mertes: 
> On Mi, 2010-05-19 at 08:42 +0200, Danny Baumann wrote:
> > In the past (compiz
> > > 0.5.6 - 0.8.2) there may have been one or two that would stick on 
> > > some weird XGL
> > > issue, but I have a dozen or so that will not 'activate' for lack of
> > > better words. (you check -> they uncheck 1-5 secs later)
> > 
> > When that happens, compiz was unable to load the plugin you tried to
> > activate. In your specific case ... 
> 
> I have this behaviour with "General Options->Desktop Size->Horizontal
> Virtual Size" when trying to set it to 2 (which is kinda annoying
> because that's exactly what I want it to be). It jumps to 3 by itself
> after a small random amount of seconds. I can set the option using
> gconf-editor (it's /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/hsize in case
> anyone having this problem finds this in a web search) without problems
> and it sticks.
> 
> Dunno if it helps but it seemed relevant, although I'm using good old
> compiz 0.8.4 and it might just be a long fixed bug.

What distro is that? That sounds like a weird distro patch, because
nothing in (upstream) core or compizconfig messes with user-set hsize
values.

Regards,

Danny