NVIDIA Fixes Old Compiz Bug 51
jones_supa writes NVIDIA has fixed a long-standing issue in the Ubuntu Unity desktop by patching Compiz. When opening the window of a new application, it would go black or become transparent on NVIDIA hardware. There have been bug reports dating back to Ubuntu 12.10 times. The problem was caused by Compiz, which had some leftover code from a port. An NVIDIA developer posted on Launchpad and said the NVIDIA team has been looking at this issue, and they also proposed a patch. "Our interpretation of the specification is that creating two GLX pixmaps pointing at the same drawable is not allowed, because it can lead to poorly defined behavior if the properties of both GLX drawables don't match. Our driver prevents this, but Compiz appears to try to do this," wrote NVIDIA's Arthur Huillet. The Compiz patch has been accepted upstream.
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For those who didn't follow the link and actually read it. It's an old security hole on 32-bit Windows
F*** 32-bit. They should have stopped selling 32-bit version since Windows Vista.
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They tend not to be terribly feature-rich, though. [slashdot.org]
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Nobody gives a shit if you don't use Linux. Just like I don't care if people smoke 4 packs of cigarettes a day. They are the ones that have to live with poor decisions and so do you. I know that I have it better than the windows world and that's all I need to know. You drink your poison and enjoy it, some of us know better. Linux isn't perfect it's just better than the alternatives.
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Gotta say, that is the first time I heard someone suggesting that using windows over linux is comparable to smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.
Coming up next: Using windows over linux is like punching a kitten. Because hyperbole.
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More like kicking a kitten.
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More having a pet lizard rather than a pet kitten.
Compiz isn't part of the OS you idiot (Score:2)
Its just an eye candy window manager core for X Windows and is totally unnecessary and wastes cycles.
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So you never use any third party software on your computer like compiz is? We all know those are bug free.
If Windows XP were open sourced... (Score:2)
The community could have fixed its problems years ago.
Unity (Score:4, Funny)
NVIDIA has fixed a long-standing issue in the Ubuntu Unity desktop
You mean they got rid of Unity! Oh, darn.
Ok... so why is this headline news? (Score:3, Insightful)
How many thousands of bugfixes are commited each day in open source projects? Why is this worthy of a Slashdot headline? :P
Re:Ok... so why is this headline news? (Score:4, Insightful)
This is one of those bugs that generates thousands of comments and a big flame war. Everyone who uses nvidia and Ubuntu (ie easily over half of Linux users) has encountered this bug. Compiz is now maintained by Ubuntu and it was one of their changes in the 0.9 series which introduced this bug in the first place. They've been unable to fix if for about 5 years. But the really interesting part is that Nvidia finally stepped in and fixed it, even though it isn't their problem. Quite possibly because Ubuntu developers in their inability to fix it have constantly blamed Nvidia.
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it's on the front page because other slashdotters voted the story up on the firehose. don't like it? go to the firehose and vote things down.
at the risk of suggesting you must be new here, there is much less editorial input than you might expect.
Sooo... (Score:1)
After reading the wiki article on Compiz, it seems to be the same animation/fluff shit Linux users got pissed off at Microsoft for including...?
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After reading the wiki article on Compiz, it seems to be the same animation/fluff shit Linux users got pissed off at Microsoft for including...?
What Linux users are pissed off at Microsoft for adding fluff? They must have sad and pathetic lives even by Slashdot standards, because you can turn all that stuff off.
What Linux users get pissed off at Microsoft for is forcing fluff, like when you have to use a GUI tool to configure something. But they are getting much better about embracing the command line. The next Windows will supposedly have even better headless support.
Compiz does do all the eye candy shiny shiny stuff. But you can turn features on
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As a Linux user I want to point out that I wasn't pissed of any less every time I had to uninstall Compiz, especially when Unity 3D made it mandatory and broke two legacy systems without warning. Moved from GNOME and Unity to Xfce since mixing Compiz and complex 3D applications was a sure way to trigger a crash in either Compiz itself or a driver.
Difference to windows: right now (Windows 8) the only way to get rid of the fluff is by frezing the login process and killing whatever monster is used to render Me
not slashdot worthy (Score:1)
who cares?
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Compiz is the bug. It needs to die. (Score:2)
Compiz is the bug. The whole thing. Seriously.
Rendering the desktop / ui with OpenGL is a very neat idea, and as far as I can tell Blender and Enlightenment have both achieved this very gracefully a long time ago, as has OS X.
However, Compiz is an entirely different thing and in my book one of the most annoying bug-ridden additions to the FOSS desktop stack in the last 10 years. A buggy laggy piece of sh*t software, messing with my input, shoddy responsiveness with particularly annoying and not-very-useful
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X might be old but its not particularly arcane and neither is OpenGL.
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Hence the drive to replace it with Wayland. People who still need X can run X over Wayland.
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Sounds like someone's never written software for Xorg...
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I've been writing Xlib code for 15 years pal. Compared to other APIs its a piece of piss.
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Considering that there is no need to use compiz whatsoever on the Linux desktop I don't see how it could possibly affect your system if you don't wish it to.
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You're free to not use and not install it.
I use compiz on Fedora and CentOS with the Mate desktop. I don't do it for wobbly windows. I do it because it allows me to set up my desktop to work the way I want it to, and it increases the smoothness and perception of speed. Other compositing window managers like Gnome 3 just don't work the way I do. I like being able to customize compiz completely to my liking. I like my hot corners to do certain things, such as show all desktops, and show all windows. The c
dating back to Ubuntu 12.10 times?? (Score:1)
You assume everybody is keeping track of what's going on in the ubuntu world!
That's why I don't like Ubuntu (Score:1)
This is precisely why I don't like Ubuntu anymore. Arthur Huillet's analysis doesn't sound too complicated, then how come nobody at canonical bothered to look into it for years? And that's not the only bug like that. To this day my Ubuntu Laptop does a forced fsck on every single boot because it fails to umount the file system properly on every shutdown (google it, I'm not the only one). How come these things don't get fixed for such a long time?
Not fixed by Ubuntu (Score:4, Insightful)
The headline gets it slightly wrong. Ubuntu (i.e Canonical) did not fix bug for at least three years.