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NVIDIA Fixes Old Compiz Bug
jones_supa writes NVIDIA has fixed a long-standing issue in the Ubuntu Unity desktop by patching Compiz. When opening the window of a new application, it would go black or become transparent on NVIDIA hardware. There have been bug reports dating back to Ubuntu 12.10 times. The problem was caused by Compiz, which had some leftover code from a port. An NVIDIA developer posted on Launchpad and said the NVIDIA team has been looking at this issue, and they also proposed a patch. "Our interpretation of the specification is that creating two GLX pixmaps pointing at the same drawable is not allowed, because it can lead to poorly defined behavior if the properties of both GLX drawables don't match. Our driver prevents this, but Compiz appears to try to do this," wrote NVIDIA's Arthur Huillet. The Compiz patch has been accepted upstream.
NVIDIA has fixed a long-standing issue in the Ubuntu Unity desktop
You mean they got rid of Unity! Oh, darn.
I will rest at night and also half the day.
How many thousands of bugfixes are commited each day in open source projects? Why is this worthy of a Slashdot headline? :P
After reading the wiki article on Compiz, it seems to be the same animation/fluff shit Linux users got pissed off at Microsoft for including...?
Yeah, at least with major league OSes like Windows we never have to worry about decade-old bugs. And Windows 8.0 was the model of usability.
who cares?
Those other OSes without bugs are much better.
Compiz is the bug. The whole thing. Seriously.
Rendering the desktop / ui with OpenGL is a very neat idea, and as far as I can tell Blender and Enlightenment have both achieved this very gracefully a long time ago, as has OS X.
However, Compiz is an entirely different thing and in my book one of the most annoying bug-ridden additions to the FOSS desktop stack in the last 10 years. A buggy laggy piece of sh*t software, messing with my input, shoddy responsiveness with particularly annoying and not-very-useful animations (unlike OS X), freezing randomly after running to long, etc. And no, running a few days shouldn't be an issue for any piece of software.
I don't know the next thing about OpenGL GUI building and acceleration, but Compiz is in perpetual commercial-software-beta state. Why it's even included, let alone a default in some distros is beyond me.
Someone please kill this project off, replace it or replace the development lead. It's degraded the Linux experience considerably in my book.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Tjmax at 100C!!
You assume everybody is keeping track of what's going on in the ubuntu world!
Nobody gives a shit if you don't use Linux. Just like I don't care if people smoke 4 packs of cigarettes a day. They are the ones that have to live with poor decisions and so do you. I know that I have it better than the windows world and that's all I need to know. You drink your poison and enjoy it, some of us know better. Linux isn't perfect it's just better than the alternatives.
Its just an eye candy window manager core for X Windows and is totally unnecessary and wastes cycles.
Well, it won't make open source any better if you just go pointing out bugs in Windows.
They tend not to be terribly feature-rich, though.
Well, it won't make closed source any better if you just go pointing out bugs in Linux.
Gotta say, that is the first time I heard someone suggesting that using windows over linux is comparable to smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.
Coming up next: Using windows over linux is like punching a kitten. Because hyperbole.
For those who didn't follow the link and actually read it. It's an old security hole on 32-bit Windows
F*** 32-bit. They should have stopped selling 32-bit version since Windows Vista.
well it was because it's open source why a third party was able to find and fix the bug in the first place. Beats waiting on the proprietary vendor to get around to finding and fixing their problems.
This is precisely why I don't like Ubuntu anymore. Arthur Huillet's analysis doesn't sound too complicated, then how come nobody at canonical bothered to look into it for years? And that's not the only bug like that. To this day my Ubuntu Laptop does a forced fsck on every single boot because it fails to umount the file system properly on every shutdown (google it, I'm not the only one). How come these things don't get fixed for such a long time?
So you never use any third party software on your computer like compiz is? We all know those are bug free.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
The community could have fixed its problems years ago.
Beats waiting on the proprietary vendor to get around to finding and fixing their problems.
We also had to wait for two and half years for this open source bug to be fixed.
The headline gets it slightly wrong. Ubuntu (i.e Canonical) did not fix bug for at least three years.
:wq
Maybe no they can go about fixing my Gtx 970.
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Awesome. Linux support is a wonderful thing and I celebrate their contribution (=
More like kicking a kitten.
More having a pet lizard rather than a pet kitten.
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You didn't have to wait, you could have offered a patch two years ago.
Windows 8 was a flop that they are trying to fix with version 10.