I confirm that I see the same effect. I suspect this is not regarded as a bug but as a feature, at least for some people, but at least give us the option to enable the background again.
My Graphics Card is an Intel, so it probably has nothing to do with hardware. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to compiz in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1329811 Title: Static Application Switcher has no window/background Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: There used to be a window containing all the application icons/mipmaps, but on my system it's gone. It looks very odd. I will attach a screenshot of what it looks like. Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti Graphics driver: nvidia binary 331.38 from nvidia-331 Compiz Version: 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/1329811/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp