I get a black screen with compiz 0.9. compiz 0.8 works fine. Tried in XFCE and LXQT. I have a mouse pointer, and the desktop exists somewhere under it, but it's all black. I can click and select stuff - it's just not visible. I'd really like to try 0.9, as I seem to recall it had some aero snap features.
Latest Manjaro/Catalyst.
edit:
Funnily enough, compiz performs better than openbox/compton - color me surprised.