All of this will go away once 0.9 hits. What's happening here is that applications are requesting to create _absurdly_ large windows which happen to be larger than the maximum texture size _hardware_ limit that your graphics card has. I believe ubuntu has patched compiz such that it will freak out and kick you back to metacity rather than attempting to crash your graphics hardware by creating huge textures out of those huge windows.
Compiz 0.9 will support tiled texturing, so the window will still appear, it will just span over multiple textures (although this will not be noticeable to the user). You'll get Compiz 0.9 as soon as all the Unity-Compiz related stuff hits ubuntu. Cheers, Sam On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Yoshi Kingz <667...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > I can reproduce the bug too. Happens every time with a long link like > google maps. > > -- > weird compiz crash, pointer on top of a long url in pidgin, compiz crashes > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667336 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz > packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in ubuntu. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz > Post to : compiz@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Sam Spilsbury -- weird compiz crash, pointer on top of a long url in pidgin, compiz crashes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667336 You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : compiz@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
