I'm facing the same issue - if I go to Appearance -> Visual Effects and set Normal, i am not able to save the preferences. It crashes each time.
when I launched "compiz --replace" from commandline, it crashes when I launch chromium -- Metacity crashes upon repeated clicking on the window title in Google Chrome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559113 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs