xgl has never been installed by ubuntu, the users who installed it likely wanted to try compiz or something on their configuration which has no correct drivers and installed that buggy software
** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Assignee: Sebastien Bacher (seb128) => Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington) -- error starting GNOME Settings Daemon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199960 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs