Metacity + Compositor + Intel + Maximize Vertical

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 22:39 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:18 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:12 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> > > In my stock F8 setup, I had desktop-effects set to off and then started
> > > compiz with compiz-manager since I use ccsm. After installing F9B, this
> > > setup would result in my laptop locking up with screen corruption when I
> > > logged in. After trying some different things, all of which didn't help
> > > find the problem, I put it back to that original setup and it then
> > > wouldn't lock up but just log me out when I tried to login. I can't seem
> > > to run compiz at all now. 
> > > 
> > > I was waiting for the big round of updates after the unfreeze to see if
> > > anything helped.
> > 
> > Since I think this is what I'm seeing, have you tried turning on the
> > compositer for Metacity?
> > 
> > /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager
> > 
> > I can enable this and be rock solid stable and have some nice effects,
> > but if I enable compiz my X locks up pretty quickly.
> 
> That's what I am using for now. The original reason I posted was that
> with the compositor enabled, I got the max vert problem and when I
> turned it off, it seemed to work as expected. More testing is needed on
> my part though as it seems this is a known older problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> tjb
> --

I am able to verify that this is not a compositor problem. Though it did
work correctly at first, it does happen with it off.

Thanks,

tjb
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