Comment 12 for bug 508452

I think that this is my bug. I'm running 64 bit 10.04, and my appearance preference for "Normal" visual effects as opposed to "None" is never remembered after reboot. I manually went into preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects and set them to normal. After doing this, my four workspace switcher applet boxes that were arranged in a square were rearranged side by side with space below them (in a 4wide x 2tall configuration, with nothing on the bottom). I right clicked the applet to fix this, and after doing this, the applet crashed. After choosing to reload the applet when prompted, the application now displays properly (back to a 2x2 square). This has happened before. For some reason, the window list applet also crashed, and also reloaded successfully. I do not recall having experienced this bug in 9.10.