In October last year, i got a new harddisk and migrated my files to this, omitting most of the "hidden" folders. This solved the problem for me. Probably there was something in the configuration files that caused this error. Taavi Palo's hint to (re)move the .local folder may be worth investigating for people who still have this issue.
For now, i guess this bug can be closed: it only happened on upgrade to Karmic, and we have moved on to Lucid now. ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- compiz is off after login; no window borders https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453912 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs