Comment 24 for bug 217984

As I stated on 2008-07-31, I traced the problems back to Compiz, so purged compix* packages from my 8.04 systems and that cured the crashes.

I have done some preliminary testing with 8.10, setting the GUI affects to the lowest possible mode - which also makes the Workspace Switcher behave the way I like it to behave, and no crashes with Totem thus far. So on 8.10 I am able to not purge compiz* packages, all that is needed on 8.10 is to set the GUI affects from the medium default level to the lowest level.

I have not bothered to test with Compiz enabled as I do not like it.