8.04: Compiz broken?

[Paul Rumelhart]

Art Alexion wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 1:48:08 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
>   
>> Not having updated anything recently, I just logged into Kubuntu 8.04
>> (KDE 3.5.10) and Compiz effects no longer work. I rarely reset this
>> computer so there may have been an update that broke Compiz, but I
>> know neither what nor when. Any ideas where to start looking?
>>
>>     
>
> Things seem to be working on my up to date installation.  Are you sure it's 
> broken?  I have to right click the fusion icon and reload the window manager 
> every time I log in.  As saved sessions don't reload compiz on KDE, nor the 
> icon, I have set the icon as a persistent entry in the quick launch area of 
> the panel, and just remember to launch it and reload the wm every time I log 
> in.
>   
Hmm.  Mine stays between reboots, I'm not sure what I did to make that 
happen. 

I've had mine not load every now and then, and just ran compiz from the 
little command-line thing I added to a panel (probably just from a 
terminal is good enough).  That doesn't happen very often, though.

Occasionally, mine will not load the adept updater icon into the panel 
and make it a normal window.  I'm not sure what triggers this, but it 
may be clicking on something before compiz is done loading.

I've also had it lose the emerald window decorations, but I just get 
them back from the compiz fusion icon.

Paul