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Note: Compiz was working on this hardware in Fedora 8. Enabling "Desktop Effects" resets the display without any window decorations. If I have an available terminal window, "ps" shows that metacity is not running any more. "Use previous settings" restores non-accelerated display, and metacity is running again. .xsession-errors shows the following message, which appears in the attached strace: 7575 write(2, "gtk-window-decorator: Screen 0 on display \":0.0\" already has a decoration manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current decoration manager.\n", 157) = 157 Note that ps showed that metacity wasn't running any more, after attempting to enable desktop-effects. Attaching strace of what desktop-effects was doing.
Created attachment 306592 [details] strace of desktop-effects failure
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Created attachment 308172 [details] Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 308173 [details] xorg.conf
Config files uploaded. Note: compiz worked on this hardware in F8.
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