Ubuntu
compiz-plugins-extra package

"Magic Lamp" effect makes window black before animating it

Bug #1095998 reported by Felix Oghină on 2013-01-04

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	compiz-plugins-extra (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have installed compiz-plugins-extra and ccsm and selected Magic Lamp for the minimize effect. Now, when minimizing a window it first turns black, then it's animated, which looks really ugly. Restoring (unminimizing) works fine, on the other hand. Here are two images, one is a screenshot of my minimize animation settings in ccsm and the other one is taken during such a broken animation:

http://imgur.com/a/L5V0T

This happens with all applications I have tried (nautilus, thunderbird, pidgin, gnome-terminal, etc.), so it doesn't seem to be application-specific.

Some system info:

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10

apt-cache policy compiz-plugins-extra
compiz-plugins-extra:
  Installed: 1:0.9.8.6-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:0.9.8.6-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
*** 1:0.9.8.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe amd64 Packages

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-04-04:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in compiz-plugins-extra (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Revision history for this message

Olupot Douglas (olupotd3) wrote on 2013-12-07:

Screenshot.jpg Edit (17.4 KiB, image/jpeg)

What you need: Compiz 0.5.5~git20070921+3v1ubuntu0 installed into your system, unsatisfied soul , gedit, ghex2
note that : You have to be root to modify the following files:
1. Use Hex editor to open “/usr/lib/compiz/libanimation.so”
2. Find “magic_lamp_max_waves”, look for following “3“, change “3″ to “0″
3. Save, Close (f2 to save,ctrl+x to close)
4. Use Text Editor to open “/usr/share/compiz/animation.xml”
5. Find “magic_lamp_max_waves”, look for following “3“, change “3″ to “0″
6. Save, Close
7. Restart GDM if the 3D desktop is currently running.
8. Set Minimization effect to “Magic Lamp”, change Max Waves to “0″ using gconf-editor.