Compiz doesn't undo profile change after processing upgrade

Have seen this for some time. To get the gnome panel then one has to disable the unityshell plugin in ccsm.
After doing that all is usually ok except if that user then decides to log into a ubuntu session. Then it's possible that the unityshell plugin will be improperly disabled

In ubuntu 13.10 it works fine, no the mix of unity and gnome-panel like in 13.04 or 12.10...

To fix it i use this bug report..
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/1180556

I am running Ubuntu 13.10 and it does not work fine.
I tried your suggested solution and it did not work.

Compiz does not gets loaded, and I have to open a terminal and type;
compiz --replace
To get it to work:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

For me, this only ever happens on the first login with a new user account. If I log into Unity first, leave it alone for a few seconds to finish initializing, and then log in to gnome-flashback, it works every time. Happened in Raring, too.

Ryan, but what about on the guest account?

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Fred <email address hidden> wrote:
> Ryan, but what about on the guest account?

A new guest account is created each time you launch a guest session,
so you're right, it will always be affected. I posted that information
to help anyone trying to triage this bug: I think the place to look is
in the scripts that do the first-time-only initialization for Unity.

Hello, the bug is still present in ubuntu 13.10 updated.

It seems that is fixed for the first login of a created user using first unity and then gnome-panel.

But if you create a user and directly log in using gnome-fallback with effects the mixed unity and gnome-panel appears, like said Ryan probably is the first time only scripts...

To fix it still what i used works:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/1180556

Just log off and log in using gnome-fallback without ffects, and the log off and use it with efects and the desktop is ready to work, but i should be fixed in ubuntu 13.10...

Or the othr option is like Ryan sais, start with unity and then log off and change to gnome flashback with effects.

Got it. The bug is in Compiz.

When Compiz starts up it looks for upgrade scripts in /usr/share/compizconfig/upgrades and runs each of them. For each upgrade, ccsProcessUpgrade (compizconfig/libcompizconfig/src/main.c:4737) sets the Compiz profile to the one mentioned in the filename ("unity" for all the scripts shipped in compiz-gnome); I guess that is so that the affected plugins are made active. But, it doesn't set the profile back afterwards!

So, the workaround for a new user account is:

mkdir -p ~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig
for file in /usr/share/compizconfig/upgrades/*.upgrade; do basename $f; done > ~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig/done_upgrades

Then Compiz won't run the upgrade scripts (since we told it they've already been done), and we avoid setting the profile to unity.

Compiz devs, would you please consider trying to fix this bug? If I have time I'll try to submit a patch, but it won't be soon...

I've been poking at this a bit. This change makes the bug go away when using the ini backend, but not gsettings. I'm not sure whether there's a separate bug in the gsettings backend, or whether this change is incorrect. I'll put some more time into it when I can. Hoping to get it fixed for trusty.

There are some test packages for trusty in ppa:rtandy/lp1232299

Does anyone else affected have a trusty system they could test that on? For me, my own session and the guest session both work well, under Flashback (Compiz) and Unity.

I experienced a Unity crash one time, but now I can't reproduce it, so I don't know whether my changes caused it.

It's estimated to have a moderate impact on a large portion of Ubuntu users.

This bug is present in ubuntu 14.04 when upgrading from ubuntu 13.10, the first time you enter in your gnome-flashback account it will show unity, to fix it, you have to start the session in metacity mode and then again in gnome-flashback gnome-panel mode.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

It seems the automated message did not reach here.

The updated version is now in proposed: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/compiz/1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1

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Timo, right now trusty-proposed has a newer compiz than utopic and this bug seems to not be fixed in utopic. Is that OK?

With compiz from trusty, logging in to a gnome-flashback guest session, the Unity launcher is visible.

With compiz from trusty-proposed, logging in to a gnome-flashback guest session, only the plugins from the Default set are loaded and there is no Unity launcher.

Logging in and out of different sessions as a single non-guest user, the proper profile is loaded for each session and settings are saved to the correct profile.

Marking verified.

I just tested Compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1 from trusty-proposed.

When starting guest session it works great and correctly starts the session.

However, when starting my existing user account it still loads Unity. :(

Hi Fred,

I thought about trying to automatically fix existing user accounts, but didn't want to risk breaking working setups.

To fix your account, edit ~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig/config and under [gnome_session] change the profile from unity to Default (with the capital D), or just delete that file. Then on your next login you should get the right profile.

Hope that helps.

Thank you!

That worked great!
This works great now!
I am very pleased with it ,and this made my Ubuntu much more enjoyable to use, thank you for fixing this! :)

I had to remove unity to recover my gnome-panel.

I just upgraded another computer from 13.10 to 14.04, when login I choosed gnome-flashback metacity. The desktop worked.
But if I try to log in again with flash-back compiz the desktop is unity and I can't fix it.

The only way I had to be abel to use gnome-flashback wit compiz was unistall unity.

sudo apt-get remove unity

All this with regular updated ubuntu 14.04 I did not used the patch.

Bests.

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1

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compiz (1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Ryan Tandy ]
  * Fix gnome-flashback session starting Unity plugins. Change the
    profile back after processing settings upgrades. When changing
    profile, discard existing GSettings wrappers pointing to the old
    profile. (LP: #1232299)

  [ Chris Townsend ]
  * Remove the Number of Desktops option in CCSM as this option confuses
    Compiz and is really no longer needed since the Horizontal/Vertical
    Virtual Desktop Size is what is used for determining the size. (LP:
    #1289820)
  * Due to some change in Gtk SpinButton, setting the initial value in
    Adjustment does not work for integers, so now just explicitly set
    the value after the SpinButton is created. (LP: #1294341)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:56:06 +0000

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This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1

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compiz (1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Ryan Tandy ]
  * Fix gnome-flashback session starting Unity plugins. Change the
    profile back after processing settings upgrades. When changing
    profile, discard existing GSettings wrappers pointing to the old
    profile. (LP: #1232299)

  [ Chris Townsend ]
  * Remove the Number of Desktops option in CCSM as this option confuses
    Compiz and is really no longer needed since the Horizontal/Vertical
    Virtual Desktop Size is what is used for determining the size. (LP:
    #1289820)
  * Due to some change in Gtk SpinButton, setting the initial value in
    Adjustment does not work for integers, so now just explicitly set
    the value after the SpinButton is created. (LP: #1294341)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:56:06 +0000