Description of problem: Enabling desktop-effects with compiz-0.3.2-1 makes things go a little crazy on my nVidia MX/MMX 400 (64MB). No windows will refresh their contents - For example I can hold alt and the cursor changes to a mouse with a little "+" like normal when moving a window - But I can't actually see it move. Commands I type into a open terminal will execute properly, but I can't see myself type. That is, until I replace compiz with "metacity --replace". Then things refresh again, and all the changes I made while desktop-effects were running will suddenly appear. Compiz will run properly with "compiz --replace gconf --use-cow" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): compiz-0.3.2-1.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable desktop-effects 2. Wait a few seconds, things freeze up. 4. Blindly click on the terminal, hit <ctrl+c> and type: 'metacity --replace' 5. Things return to normal Actual results: Compiz makes windows stop "refreshing" their contents Expected results: Compiz doesn't freeze the windows
Same symptoms here, with latest nVidia binary drivers (v9629). Adding these lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf under "Device" allows compiz 0.3.2-1 to run: Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True" Perhaps we could change the RPM to add these lines if it detects an nVidia card? The average user probably won't want to do this. This does fix compiz, but for me it now messes up the decorations: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215380
> Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True" Yup, it does work - I was missing that option, and now after adding that it works perfectly.
Since cow is the default for Compiz in the development branch, this isn't an issue anymore...