Comment 42 for bug 486154

Aha! You've done -exactly- the debugging I was thinking of asking you to do... :) [More, even, since I didn't realize you could easily try out 9.04; I don't have any 9.04 systems and didn't really want to install one just for testing, though i guess I could. I'd assumed this was broken before then.]

The fact that you can make it change by just enabling compiz vs metacity without even logging in or out is actually great news; if it really -is- metacity, that's not a large codebase. Can you be precise about what you're doing to enable/disable compiz so I can try the same tests? Is it just the Visual Effects thing, going from the lowest to the highest "effects" mode? Can you also do something like "ps -elf" or "ps -elf --forest" and diff them to see which processes are running in each case? That's pretty crude, but might give us an idea of where to look.

Thanks!