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Compiz and Desktop Effects on Netbook with External Monitor

Compiz and Desktop Effects on Netbook with External Monitor

I have an Acer Aspire One AO150 and am having trouble plugging in an external monitor under Ubuntu 9.10. There were no problems under 9.04. If I plug in an external monitor once the machine is already up, then bring up the 'display' application to activate it, it basically hangs. There are no problem under these circumstances if I have desktop effects turned off. I've seen a few mentions of this problem on the Ubuntu forums, but never a solid solution. Any ideas?

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There is a bug (launchpad bug) in 9.10 that blocks the X server upon detection of external display when running compiz. You can get around this by running metacity (metacity --replace).