Comment 33 for bug 572617

Hi,

Me too.

On an older desktop, which I just upgraded to Lucid from Karmic and which had *none* of these problems before the upgrade, the only solution that works is (b) compiz --replace as a startup item. This machine uses the older nvidia 96 drivers.

On a very new laptop, which I just upgraded to Lucid from Karmic and *already* had these kind of problems before the upgrade, the only solution that works is (b) compiz --replace as a startup item. This machine uses the new ati fglrx 8.723 drivers (2:8.723-1 in the repos).

Also, for both machines and after implementing the above workaround(s), selecting "Start Awn automatically" under Dock Preferences does *not* work. So, for both machines: I deselect this option, create /usr/local/bin/awn-delayed as simple shell script which simply runs "sleep 5; avant-window-navigator", and then I create a startup item that calls /usr/local/bin/awn-delayed . (Without the sleep 5 command, awn seems to start before compiz, probably because in my workaround compiz is running as a startup program, not as the gnome default window manager, as would normally be the case. Others may need to adjust the sleep time up or down according to their machine's speed.)

These two workarounds seem to get me machines that, when I log into them, behave as I expect and as I think they ought to in Ubuntu by default: Compiz starts (and "extra" shows up as selected in the System -> Preferences -> Appearances dialog) and AWN starts.

HTH,
Doug