Thanks guys.
I'm using Arch Linux and recently upgraded Xorg from 1.4x to 1.5x. Current environment is gnome with compiz and emerald. I upgraded my nvidia binaries to the current beta ones, as they depend on Xorg 1.5+ and fix the window decorations corruptions with wine and compiz. I'm using a non current git slightly newer than alpha 9. After the upgrades, a new bug developed. When selecting an individual tables "close this hud" my system immediately hard crashes (a feat I have not been able to accomplish in quite some time
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I've determined compiz is not the issue, as the bug is replicated without it using Metacity. The Xorg upgrade is actually a major one as it changes the way X and hal with dbus communicate with all periphrials (including mouse and keyboard). And of course the proprietary nvidia driver upgrade is suspect too. I haven't isolated those yet as I can't downgrade Xorg and Xorg server without downgrading the video drivers first, and that involves recompiling my kernel and some other things first. And of course the issue might be something completely different.
Still pretty busy, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish self troubleshooting before alpha 10, we'll see how it goes. In the mean time I can get along fine with the bug, just letting you all know what's up.
Still loving the project and all open source, Later.