NVIDIA Finds and Corrects Old Compiz Bug That Caused Windows to Go Black in Ubuntu

  • 3 March 2015
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By Silviu Stahie    3 Mar 2015
 
Just in time for the Ubuntu 15.04 release
 
NVIDIA has fixed a long-standing issue in Ubuntu systems by patching Unity. If you ever experienced windows going black for no apparent reason, then you might be in for treat.
 
Some users have noticed that if they are using NVIDIA hardware on Ubuntu systems, they are confronted with an annoying problem. When opening the window of a new application, it would go black or become transparent. As it turns out, this is actually an old problem and there are bug reports dating back from Ubuntu 12.10 times.
It looks like NVIDIA is actually paying close attention to some of these bug reports that involve their hardware and they found out that they weren't to blame for it. In fact, the problem was caused by Compiz, which had some leftover code from a port.
 

NVIDIA found the issue and proposed a fix

 
An NVIDIA developer posted on Launchpad and said that the NVIDIA team has been looking at this issue and that they found Compiz to be at fault. They also proposed a fix for the problem.
 
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