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[Endre Stølsvik <online@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: compiz

I find the animations of Compiz very nice. For the Close animation, I
particularly like the "Explode" effect of Animations Add-On.

However, *sometimes* when I do close the window and the explosion
occurs, the animation suddenly freezes towards the end (while it is
fading out) - and of those times, sometimes this takes down the entire
compiz.

Observations:
The machine then hangs for several seconds (nearly up to a minute), until suddenly it responds again - and now all windows are on one screen, without decorations.

The mouse cursor still work (also during the freeze) and the windows are
still working (after the freeze "thawes" again) - if I'm lucky and a
terminal is active, I can simply get cracking again by writing "compiz-
real" and hitting enter. I've used absurd schemes when this wasn't the
case: I cut'n'pasted letter by letter into a terminal, finally pasting a
line feed, thus getting things up again. All the windows are then on the
same screen, so I have to lay them out onto the other desktops. Since
the menus are still working, I've now set up some menu items to be able
to start metacity or compiz from there.

I enabled the Crash handler via CompizConfig Settings Manager - so I
thought it would save a crash dump in /tmp. I've never found such,
though. I've enabled the "Start Other Window Manager", and set the
command line to "metacity". This seems to have worked once or twice -
but sometimes it doesn't, and I've had to use the mentioned menu item I
created.

I tried the Animation "Leaf Spread" instead - since it is pretty similar
to Explode. However, I just got the exact same thing happing with that
too.

One observation which I have no idea whether is connected, is that in
particular when Explode was active (but it has happened with Leaf Spread
too), it sometimes looked like the animation didn't *quite* finish up -
the last frame of the animation, where the pieces was on their biggest,
and the fade-out on its most extreme, it just stopped - so that this
final image was left - but compiz didn't crash afterall. If I then take
hold of another window and moved that about, it would work as an eraser
that wiped that left-over image away. (I find that this latter aspect is
also described in bug 388716)

** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Animations' "Explode" and "Leaf Spread" sometimes crash Compiz
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512598
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