Changing CompizConfig settings causes a segmentation fault

[timothyb89]

I just installed openSuSE 10.3 on a laptop with an intel graphics card. Compiz is running on it, but I can't configure it :-/
Running "DISPLAY=:0 compiz gconf" starts everything up nicely. I go into CCSM to change some settings and try out the new plugins, but the first thing I change crashes Compiz. Looking back in the terminal, there's a bunch of GConf errors (something about assertions...), assuming it hadn't managed to segfault. Ironically, the settings I changed occasionally take effect when restarting compiz after the crash.
All I can deduce from that is that this only happens when the settings are updated, so a possible workaround would be to disable Compiz for the time the settings are being tweaked, but that seems to be a bit much of a hassle and ruins the point of the dynamic updater :(

Is this a GConf problem (maybe an update to fix a bug?), a CCSM bug, or what?

-Thanks, timothyb89

[adamk]

You should not be starting compiz with the gconf plugin if you want to use 'ccsm'. You should be starting it with the 'ccp' plugin. Try that instead and see if you still get the crashes.

Adam

[cyberorg]

compiz --replace ccp&

Better still, don't start it manually, use compiz-manager.

See http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz_Fusion

[timothyb89]

Great! I installed compiz-manager and its working great now! Thanks ;-)