F7: Desktop Effects bug with nVidia GPU

[Scott van Looy]

Today Clodoaldo did spake thusly:

> 2007/6/4, Randy Forston <rforston at earthlink.net>:
>> Clodoaldo wrote:
>> > 2007/6/4, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>:
>> >> On 6/4/07, Clodoaldo <clodoaldo.pinto.neto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> 2007/6/4, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>:
>> >>>> On 6/4/07, Clodoaldo <clodoaldo.pinto.neto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>> 2007/6/4, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>:
>> >>>>>> On 6/4/07, Clodoaldo <clodoaldo.pinto.neto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>> Gnome desktop. Using nVidia MX 440 video card with the nVidia
>> >>>>>>> 96xx driver.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> When I logout and login with Desktop Effects enabled
>> >>>>>>> applicattions restart without the title bar.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> To reproduce the bug:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Set the session to automaticaly save changes.
>> >>>>>>> Open a terminal.
>> >>>>>>> Open Desktop Effects.
>> >>>>>>> Unselect "Windows Wobble when Moved".
>> >>>>>>> Select "Workspaces on a Cube".
>> >>>>>>> Enable Desktop Effects.
>> >>>>>>> Logout and Login.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> The terminal now starts without the title bar.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Is the terminal the only window that lacks a title bar, or do
>> >>>>>> all applications exhibit this behavior?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I suggested the terminal because it is fast to start. I tried
>> >>>>> also with gedit and its behavior is still worse: it gets stuck
>> >>>>> to the top left corner, hiding the top bar, without the title
>> >>>>> bar and without the text area.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> This isn't a bug, you've not configured X correctly.
>> >>>
>> >>> xorg.conf configured by the livna-config-display: What is wrong
>> >>> with it?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> See:
>> >> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=77030
>> >> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678
>> >
>> > I followed the advice there and added this to xorg.conf:
>> >
>> > Section "Extensions"
>> >     Option "Composite" "Enable"
>> > EndSection
>> >
>> > Still the same problem.
>> >
>> > Clodoaldo
>> 
>> This is NOT just an NVIDIA (driver) issue.
>> 
>> I'll experiment with the xorg advice from the links above, but I don't
>> expect it to change anything.
>> 
>> I see the same problems using Intel graphics (on-board Intel chipset),
>> running Beryl (or Desktop Effects), in both Fedora 7 and Ubuntu 7.04
>> 
>> I first noticed the "missing Titlebar" issue, when I first ran Desktop
>> Effects in either OS.
>
> I filed a bug report:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242663

The "missing titlebar" issue happens when compiz loads but 
gnome-window-decorator doesn't. Try running (from a terminal) compiz 
--replace and seeing what happens. Try running gnome-window-decorator from 
a terminal too - either and/or both should spit out text if they don't 
work right...

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