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[Maximinus <876198@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems that the developer I was communicating with was mistaken as to
the cause of this issue - and he's "not really supposed to use work time
to support things like the cube."

The root of the problem here seems to be that Canonical/Ubuntu
developers have decided that, even though their new pet project Unit
depends on Compiz, they don't actually support Compiz; as seen in the
mailing list discussion mentioned here several comments back, some of
them are even pushing to remove the CompizConfig Settings Manager from
official Ubuntu repos completely, because people use it to break things
and then file bugs.  The actual problem here is surely that they've
broken Compiz (or "upgraded" to a broken version because they haven't
tested properly before upgrading - I'm not sure which, but I'm also not
sure which is worse) and are ignoring that fact because it's part of
Compiz that the all-holy Unity doesn't use by default.

Ubuntu seems to be moving rapidly away from a good base that anybody can
easily tweak to suit them, and towards a pre-packaged box that breaks if
you so much as think about tweaking it to suit you.  I've been using
Ubuntu since the relatively early days, but it seems to be becoming
exactly that which I sought to avoid by moving to Ubuntu as my primary
OS - a precarious arrangement which is liable to topple if looked at the
wrong way.  (Yes, it's always been possible to break Ubuntu - but you
used to have to actively try doing something out of the ordinary to do
so!)

If anybody can suggest an alternative distro that includes kernel >=
3.0, Gnome (preferably 2, but I'll take 3 if it's a stable build which
plays nice with Compiz) and Compiz (a working version - not this
unsupported, broken mess), I might just have to switch.  I can't
downgrade to an earlier Ubuntu, as the main reason for moving to 11.10
was to get kernel 3.0; 2.6 doesn't support half the hardware in this
laptop.

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Title:
  When switching workspaces with rotate/cube previous Ws contents are
  momentarily displayed

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