Description of problem: I turned Desktop Effects on. Tried a few applications (Thunderbird, Firefox, etc.). The windows have no decorations (or whatever is called the bar with the minimize, maximize, close buttons). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): compiz-0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 How reproducible: only tried once Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual results: see above Expected results: duh Additional info:
Is this a duplicate of 212725?
I'm seeing this with a completely updated FC6 system, which includes compiz-0.3.6-2.fc6. I moved the home directory of the user out of the way, created a new one with just a .cshrc, started X again (the system comes up at run level 3), turned on desktop-effects, logged out, logged in again, and started a terminal window. There were no decorations on the window.
I wonder, is this with the Metacity-themed gtk-window-decorator? Also, is it just sitting at hogging CPU time after being enabled? Does this work again if you use the built-in Cairo-based theme? (To do this, set the "/apps/gwd/use_metacity_theme" GConf key to False; either using the gconf-editor graphical tool or the gconftool-2 CLI utility.) This "fixed" it for me. (Actually, I like the Cairo-based theming a lot better, but the fact remains that the metacity theming engine seems broken somehow... :[)
I am having a similar problem. I have a fully updated FC6 system using compiz. I do have window decorations for a while after logging in but eventually, they stop working. When windows get focus, the title bar does not change color and none of the close, minimize, etc. buttons work any more. Neither can the window be dragged by the title bar. Any windows opened, after the problem starts, have blank title bars with no buttons or text. It started happening yesterday.
I had this same problem. Running an updated FC6 with Desktop Effects. I normally don't run them, but my other CS major friends were boasting about Vista and how much they liked the desktop effects it had, so I had to show them Fedora and how its kind of a step ahead of M$FT. So after having Desktop Effects enabled for a day, at work I lost the border and title bar. I can still access the context menu for minimize and what not through the task bar. There are also a few "blank" windows to switch from with ALT+TAB. What I mean is that I have 8 windows open on 1 workspace, 2 open on the next right one and ALT+TAB gives me 12 windows to switch from. Selecting one of these "blank" windows simply does nothing (keeps the current window I had top-most still top-most, this could be another bug issue though). I had the Nuvula Theme selected and tried switching themes to see if this would restore the border and title bar....nothing. They are even missing when I select new login from the Applications -> System Tools and log in. Hope this data helps anyone.
This isn't really a fix but you can kill and restart gtk-window-decorator to get it working again. I will try setting use_metacity_theme to false to see how that goes.
I'm seeing this as well, also when compiz is enabled it does not accept changes to the window decorations from the gnome theme manager.
Apparently, window decorations disappearing has been fixed in upstream compiz (source: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-May/msg01829.html). Any chance we can get 0.5 in at least F7?
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