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compiz package

  1. Bug #1242115
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1242115

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Stephen Blackheath (confectionery-kaput-stephen) wrote :

I'm using 13.10 and a HP Pavilion dv6 with an Intel/NVIDIA GeForce GT630M hybrid, where bumblebee is needed to make the proprietary driver work. This isn't used for Unity/Compiz so the Xorg driver I'm using is intel.

Mir does not work on this hardware - Xorg won't start (but that's off-topic). To disable it, I commented out this line in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/10-unity-system-compositor.conf

#type=unity

With this configuration I get the black window border / black terminal symptom in Compiz consistently. I am not sure what the trigger was, but it was when I re-installed stuff in an attempt to get bumblebee working. It wasn't triggered when I upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10, but it happened some time after.

I *have* had it working, and it may be that I previously got Mir to work (because I definitely tried to do this).