Hi, On Utopic (after fresh install & updates) I am experiencing tons of bugs in Unity & almost nothing really works. The real issue is that, these bugs affects taking screenshot & desktop video recording which is preventing me to report any new bugs.
I. 'Show Desktop' on launcher crashes compiz for any Gtk-Headerbar app when using any third party Gtk(3.12) theme. How to reproduce on Utopic: 1. sudo apt-get install Numix 2. sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool 3. change Gtk theme to Numix 4. Open any app with Gtk-Headerbar (& NOT directly patched by Ubuntu) like gnome-tweak-tool, gnome-system-log 2. enable show-desktop on unity launcher 3. Click on show-desktop first time. it will show desktop. 4. Click on it again, it crashes compiz & sometimes does not recover from it. Users have to fallback to TTY & force restart lightdm. Compiz on other desktop shell/session works relatively well. For example in Gnome-Flashback-Compiz session this issue doesn't happen. Filed a bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1387163 II. Any desktop recording tool doesn't work with compiz. I tried with gtk-recordmydesktop & kazaam. Problems: 1. Unity elements are not visible in the video like dash & sometime right click menu. 2. Sometime the windows (any) are not visible & appears transparent. 3. It failed to capture any default compiz effect like scale (Super+w) 4. Sometime after completing recording it saves the previously recorded video! (until I run "compiz --replace"). For example, in this video (http://youtu.be/JQT6LTUXIe8), I opened dash, searched for terminal & opened it. But in the video nothing is visible. However, recording works very well in *NON-Compiz* session, i.e. gnome-flashback (metacity). III. Screenshot tool (gnome-screenshot) fails to capture screenshot after certain time. How to reproduce: 1. open gnome-screenshot gui. Capture whole screen. save it. 2. open it again. This time capture a window. save it. 3. capture a area don't save it. 4. Repeat 1,2,3 few times. 5. After some time it will show the preview of previously taken screenshot & save that image. It is impossible to take any new screenshot util I run "compiz --replace". ....not sure what causing this issue but I could not reproduce it on non compiz session. And If I remember correctly, it did not happen when I was on couple of updates behind from Utopic beta. There are other bugs in compiz ( I will file more when I have time) which affects not only Unity but other compiz desktop-session as well (gnome-flashback-compiz). I tried to reset compiz with "dconf reset /org/compiz/ && setsid unity" AND deleting everything from /home/$user directory....but nothing helped. So far what I have seen, this release is probably the most unstable (in compiz) & preventing users to perform even some basic tasks. Thanks.
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