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Public bug reported:

I've launched CompizConfigSettingsManager to try and activate certain
plugins. However, it seems to be radically unstable and non-functional
compared to my previous experiences of the tool. For example...

Selecting the checkbox "Application Switcher" causes the plugin to
activate, but sometimes causes Compiz to crash. On closing and
relaunching CCSM, "Application Switcher" is no longer shown as selected,
even when it was previously active. This has the effect of deactivating
it anytime you edit something in CCSM. State doesn't seem to be being
saved between CCSM sessions.

Activating D-Bus and Command (to try and use the command-line invocation
of Scale window grouping) causes Compiz to crash, and the compiz window
manager will then not restart, (even after a reboot), without removing
the .config/compiz-1 folder to create a fresh configuration.

I've been trying to create a window-switching environment a bit like
Unity. In particular I need to be able to view windows from a "window
group" in a similar way to the Unity Application Switcher (which
switches window groups first, then expands to show the individual
windows in that group).

So far I've been unable to really explore this option because of the
sheer number of bugs in the plugins or configuration system, even when
there are so many different strategies which could in principle achieve
it.

I'm using a build installed from Lubuntu 13.04 Beta 2

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: compizconfig-settings-manager 1:0.9.9~daily13.04.10-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-18.28-generic 3.8.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Sat Apr 13 23:36:58 2013
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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


** Tags: apport-bug i386 raring

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Title:
  Compiz Configuration changes transient, create unstable compiz

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