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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.
How many thousands of bugfixes are commited each day in open source projects? Why is this worthy of a Slashdot headline? :P
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?
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
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.
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*
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...?
What Linux users are pissed off at Microsoft for adding fluff? They must have sad and pathetic lives even by Slashdot standards, because you can turn all that stuff off.
What Linux users get pissed off at Microsoft for is forcing fluff, like when you have to use a GUI tool to configure something. But they are getting much better about embracing the command line. The next Windows will supposedly have even better headless support.
Compiz does do all the eye candy shiny shiny stuff. But you can turn features on and off atomically, and there is a great deal of configuration available for each feature. If for example you like many of the aspects of the OSX desktop, but some of the features bother you or you wish they worked a little bit differently, you can get the precise effect you're looking for with Compiz.
Sadly, my favorite window manager (emerald) is not being developed any more, but between emerald, compiz, and avant-window-navigator it's possible to build a maclike desktop which actually works properly, and which has only useful eye candy like smooth moves (nice for seeing where windows go) and an Expose-like feature with no borders. That is, you can turn them off. And of course, mipmapped previews.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The community could have fixed its problems years ago.
The headline gets it slightly wrong. Ubuntu (i.e Canonical) did not fix bug for at least three years.
:wq
As a Linux user I want to point out that I wasn't pissed of any less every time I had to uninstall Compiz, especially when Unity 3D made it mandatory and broke two legacy systems without warning. Moved from GNOME and Unity to Xfce since mixing Compiz and complex 3D applications was a sure way to trigger a crash in either Compiz itself or a driver.
Difference to windows: right now (Windows 8) the only way to get rid of the fluff is by frezing the login process and killing whatever monster is used to render Metro (Windows 7 had an option to disable it, Windows 8 has a watchdog to keep it alive at any cost). On Linux I can choose a "lightweight" desktop environment and stay with it (XFCE for gnome lite, LXDE for kde lite).
More like kicking a kitten.
More having a pet lizard rather than a pet kitten.
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