compiz fusion instability - going back to kwin
After a few weeks of trying Compiz Fusion on my Kubuntu Gutsy laptop I have returned to using the standard KWin window manager. My reasons for this were:
- Buggy decorators. After running for a short period of time with compiz the windows decorators (maximum, minimize, close, resize, etc) stopped appearing.
- Tray icons not loading correctly. When I booted my laptop and immediately logged in a few of the system tray icons (PowerManager for one) would not load in the tray but instead be running on the top left of the screen. Restoring to kwin would cause this issue to go away.
- Occasionally on login the keyboard would not be functional. This was resolvable by logging out with the mouse and logging back in.
Overall I liked the effects but couldn’t handle the issues and not being a kde developer didn’t feel like sifting through bug reports and trying to tinker with the window manager. I setup my compiz fusion configuration according to the help.ubuntu.com’s instructions.