[Bug 321224] [NEW] Screen shifted to the right with nvidia drivers and compiz

[Daniele]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu 8.10 Laptop with nVidia proprietary drivers and compiz
If I select the desktop effects from ubuntu desktop settings I get like 10-15 pixels of the right of the screen wrapped on the left. There's also a row of 1-2 pixels on the top of the screen that's screwed.
The glitch only occurs when I enable Compiz through System, Preferences, Appearance. Not when I enable/disable Compiz via the Compiz Fusion Icon. Neither does the Compiz Fusion icon get rid of the glitch once it's there.
Don't know if it's of some help, but I noted that if I take a desktop screenshot there's no shifting in the captured image.
I also figured out that there is something wrong with gnome-settings-daemon (although I don't know if this is related, maybe this is it's a different problem).
My screen is 1280x800. if I change the resolution to 1024x768 from gnome display settings, the screen becomes again straight, but I loose all my theme settings, and seems that gnome-settings-daemon crashes, but there's is no logged error anywhere. Now I have to set again the resolution to 1280x800 and manually start gnome-settings-daemon to apply this change e have back my theme.
I solved with this script on my desktop and I run it on every boot, but I would like to find a better solution!:
<code>
#!/bin/bash
nvidia-settings -a GPUScaling=1,3
nvidia-settings -a GPUScaling=2,1
</code>

$ lsb_release -rd:
Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
Release:	8.10

$ apt-cache policy compiz:
compiz:
  Installato: 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4.2~ppa2
  Candidato: 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4.2~ppa2
  Tabella versione:
 *** 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4.2~ppa2 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
     1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
     1:0.7.7+git20080909-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages

$ apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-180:
nvidia-glx-180:
  Installato: 180.11-0ubuntu1~intrepid1
  Candidato: 180.11-0ubuntu1~intrepid1
  Tabella versione:
 *** 180.11-0ubuntu1~intrepid1 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy gnome-settings-daemon:
gnome-settings-daemon:
  Installato: 2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3
  Candidato: 2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3
  Tabella versione:
 *** 2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

there's also a discussion on this problem here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1043400

** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Screen shifted to the right with nvidia drivers and compiz
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321224
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