Thanks for your suggestions Martin. I tried following them, but without
success. It turned out that the compiz package was indeed not
installed, but after installing it and restarting there was no change in
behaviour. I also tried removing the ~/.gonf/desktop/gnome/session/
directory and setting System>Preferences>Appearances>Visual Effects to
None, again with no change.
More information which may or may not be useful:
I should point out that generally my workaround is just restarting compiz each
time I boot (i.e. $ compiz --replace &) without having to restart metacity
(although occasionally I have to restart both). And when I restart compiz I
always get the following error message in my terminal:
r...@mobile:~$ compiz --replace &
[1] 1636
r...@mobile:~$ WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap"
when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug!
Starting gtk-window-decorator
compiz (cube) - Warn: Failed to load slide:
/usr/share/gdm/themes/Human/ubuntu.png
r...@mobile:~$ WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap"
when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug!
Also, when I display System>Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects none
of the options are actually selected after I restart compiz, even though
the effects are working (e.g. the desktop cube).
And when I check the /var/log/syslog to find anything related to 'compiz' I get
the following (not sure if it's related or not):
May 20 13:54:07 mobile gnome-session[1260]: WARNING: Could not launch
application '10d41a48d430b8bdae126393718011413500000015010028.desktop': Unable
to start application: Failed to execute child process "/usr/bin/compiz.real"
(No such file or directory)
compiz version:
$ apt-cache policy compiz
compiz:
Installed: 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu15
Candidate: 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu15
Version table:
*** 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu15 0
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
metacity version:
$ apt-cache policy metacity
metacity:
Installed: 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
graphics controller:
$ lspci
...
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
...
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metacity and compiz aren't working properly at startup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543097
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