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Compiz screen corruption

May 3, 2015

This post is for me to look back on later and remember how to fix this!

I installed Ubuntu MATE 14.04 in VirtualBox, installed the guest additions, then switched on Compiz. It worked fine, until I changed the guest screen resolution. Then the guest screen looked like this:

After some trial and error, the fix: in CompizConfig Settings Manager, OpenGL plugin, uncheck "Framebuffer object".