Fixing Compiz Flickering Under Nvidia's Proprietary Driver: An Addendum

UPDATE: the compiz patch PPA has been updated to the latest version, so pinning the compiz version is no longer necessary.

I wrote up a method for fixing this bug between Compiz and Nvidia’s proprietary driver. The conclusion was: use the PPA. Then recently Compiz went and updated with a vengeance, the PPA build got overwritten, and lo and behold, the bug wasn’t fixed — the screen started flickering again, the hell.

First thing I thought of was rolling back to the PPA version with Synaptic, but compiz has too many dependencies, it pulls in unity directly, and the rollback dialog won’t let you multi-select. So I just went to the patched PPA, downloaded the debs, and downgraded everything in one go with sudo dpkg -i *.deb.

Opened Synaptic again and pinned all the compiz versions.

Goddammit, if you’re not gonna fix the bug, at least stop bumping the fucking version number.