Description of problem: When enabling Desktop Effects (via the desktop-effects app), the window manager disappears. The gnome panels and nautilus continue to run. If you attempt to disable desktop affects (or click on the 'Use previous settings' button on the confirmation dialog), the entire system locks hard - it is not responsive to the keyboard or even remotely over the network. In order to recover, you must restart the system, boot into the failsafe session, and run the desktop-effects app from there to disable it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): compiz-0.0.13-0.14.20060721git.fc5.aiglx xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-15.fc6 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.1-7.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login to GNOME Session 2. run 'desktop-effects', click 'Enable Desktop Effects' 3. (optionally) click on 'Use previous settings' Actual results: Unusable system Expected results: Pretty eyecandy Additional info: The system is an IBM ThinkPad T42. It is mostly rawhide from August 4th, with select components (kernel, compiz, X server, gnome-menus) from today's (August 7th) rawhide. # uname -a Linux cthulhu 2.6.17-1.2528.fc6 #1 SMP Sun Aug 6 01:43:42 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
Created attachment 133748 [details] xorg.conf
I'm trying this out on an Intel devel box with the i915 driver and it fails in a different way with the 10-Aug-2006 Rawhide. When you click "Enable Desktop Effects", the panels and the title bar of all open windows disappear. I am able to get everything back to normal by clicking the "Use Previous Settings" button.
There's two different bugs here: the lockup with the T42 should be fixed in rawhide now (or at least tomorrow, make sure you have at least mesa-libGL-6.5-23.20060818cvs.fc6). Please try that out. As for the problem with the intel box, I suspect that is a dupe of bugs #203284. Please try the work around described there, and if that doesn't work, open a new bugs, attach the output of gconftool-2 --dump /apps/compiz The preferred way of starting compiz is to enable it from the "Desktop Effects" disalog in System->Preferences->More Preferences. If you're starting compiz manually (not recommended), make sure that gnome-window-decorator has been started on the same display before running compiz.
Doing a clean install of FC6Test3 fixes the problem.