The workaround in comment #5 worked for me, thanks Walter, I've been grinding my teeth for a while on this.
Interestingly, even an empty ~/.local/share/applications/compiz.desktop causes the symptoms described here. With an empty compiz-desktop file, the following error message turns up in ~/.xsession-errors (and syslog): gnome-session[6751]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'compiz' of required component 'windowmanager' 'fraid I don't know anything about gnome-session or compiz, so I can't dig any further than this. BTW, I'm using a dual monitor set-up, in case anyone else experiencing the problem here also has. HTH -- Appearance "Visual Effects" settings lost across reboots and log out / log on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
