Ubuntu Mate 24.04 Compiz not working Properly

[Salah]

Dear Community and Ubuntu Mate Creator.

Am writer with sadness for installing this version Ubuntu Mate 24.04LTS. I thought upgrading to 22.04LTS will be better and experiencing new features.

In fact, I was so happy with my Distro 22.04LTS version with compiz manager compatibility and effects working like a charm no issues no error messages and no blinking screen.

Since moving to Ubuntu 24.04LTS. Compiz is not working properly after installation as well as log out session, when I return, display is not working properly. Panel is not showing and so on. So I have to change to Macro Xrender and change Panel settings to get back to normal screen.

Display is always blinking without any reason.

As I explained on other thread, on screen keyboard is not functioning at all.

Why did you release this version from the first place if there is going to be a lot of errors.

And why For Crying Out Loud compiz is not working in this version, unlike previous one working like a charm.

Customizing and tuning our Distro makes it distinguish from Boring Windows with it's dull, no life Desktop.

Am really sad and regret choosing this distro 24.04LTS, 22.04LTS is way better.

I hope in the next update will fix these errors and please Ubuntu Mate, Let compiz return back and work properly.

First Picture using Marco Xrender

Second Picture when trying to use Compiz and logout - login

[tkn]

You're not the only one. I can't copy/paste my response due to restrictions in the forum engine but I can lead you to it:

Compiz window manager is a mess on 24.04

First the disclaimer: I'm not a developer, just a simple user. If Compiz works, but fails after a reboot, try a different displaymanager, or at least display-greeter. I had some problems with arctica-greeter setting up a desktop session which disappeared when i swiched to slick-greeter. If that doesn't work, try this: And then this:

[Salah]

Thank you my friend for your reply.

Just to draw your attention that second screen is taken when I switched to compiz. Even I have a video boot when firing up or loging in, it did not show the video only sound. When I go back to Xrender the video boot appears normally.

I just wish they only changed version number and kept same features like 22.04LTS.

What a mess.

Regards,

[ricmarques]

Hi, @Salah

Regarding this particular problem you're having:

@Salah

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Display is always blinking without any reason.
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... you may want to check the following recent post written by @tkn (maybe it helps you!):

Random flickering on displayoutput ? change kernel!

Both my old laptop and my mediacenter had this problem. The source of the problem on my systems is the new and improved Intel driver that makes use of the IOMMU (which is rather a tricky thing to do by the way). On my 22.04 installs I removed the HWE packages so I reverted automatically to an older kernel and this solved the issue. This is ofcourse not the most common way to solve this but it is the easiest way, and it survives kernelupdates. Coincidentally but unrelated: Some other people w…

[Salah]

Thank you for your reply, but it did not work. Tried shifting between both Intel/Nvidia without any progress, just blinking. I did not face this in previous version.

I even install HWE which seemed not installed by default, nothing happen.

Regards,