I had a line in my ~/.Xresources which was affecting this. I can reproduce from a clean account by running emacs-snapshot --xrm "Emacs.FontBackend: xft" from within compiz.
-- [intrepid] emacs windows don’t display after compiz 0.7.6 upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239917 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
