Created attachment 438208 [details]
standalone demo

upstream bugzilla (http://bugs.opencompositing.org) seems dead/down :-(

FWIW, the demo application works fine for me, using compiz off the HEAD of the 0.8 branch (which essentially is 0.8.6).

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"FWIW, the demo application works fine for me, using compiz off the HEAD of the
0.8 branch (which essentially is 0.8.6)."

I quickly build the 0.8.6 rawhide rpm, which admittedly has some patches in it, and when I ran the demo on an empty screen it initially looked good. Until I realized that...

a) the gnome panels were drawn above the full-screen window
b) when I added some extra windows to my screen to fill it up and then re-ran it then the window is positioned off screen.

where the same source commented removal of decoration hint disable or removal or resizing disable makes it "work" as desired by fitting it over everything else and anchored at 0, 0

(In reply to comment #6)
> "FWIW, the demo application works fine for me, using compiz off the HEAD of the
> 0.8 branch (which essentially is 0.8.6)."
> 
> I quickly build the 0.8.6 rawhide rpm, which admittedly has some patches in it,

If the patches equal those of the Fedora package, I don't think they'll have any influence to this problem.

> and when I ran the demo on an empty screen it initially looked good. Until I
> realized that...
> 
> a) the gnome panels were drawn above the full-screen window
> b) when I added some extra windows to my screen to fill it up and then re-ran
> it then the window is positioned off screen.
> 
> where the same source commented removal of decoration hint disable or removal
> or resizing disable makes it "work" as desired by fitting it over everything
> else and anchored at 0, 0    

Interesting. It doesn't do that here. Instead it sometimes spans both of my monitors, although a fullscreen window should only span one of them. I wonder if the demo program setting the minimum size to the screen size (clearly not taking multi-monitor configurations into account) is related (1280x1024 + 1680x1050 -> screen size 2960x1050). I'll check that out.

It looks like it's no compiz problem, after all, but instead Gtk+ is to blame. An excerpt of xprop with the offending lines removed looks like this:

WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
                window state: Normal
                icon window: 0x0
_NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 0
_NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS(ATOM) = _NET_WM_ACTION_MOVE, _NET_WM_ACTION_RESIZE, _NET_WM_ACTION_STICK, _NET_WM_ACTION_MINIMIZE, _NET_WM_ACTION_MAXIMIZE_HORZ, _NET_WM_ACTION_MAXIMIZE_VERT, _NET_WM_ACTION_FULLSCREEN, _NET_WM_ACTION_CLOSE, _NET_WM_ACTION_CHANGE_DESKTOP, _NET_WM_ACTION_ABOVE, _NET_WM_ACTION_BELOW
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN

while the same excerpt with the offending lines in looks like this:

WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
                window state: Normal
                icon window: 0x0
_NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 0
_NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS(ATOM) = _NET_WM_ACTION_MOVE, _NET_WM_ACTION_STICK, _NET_WM_ACTION_MINIMIZE, _NET_WM_ACTION_CLOSE, _NET_WM_ACTION_CHANGE_DESKTOP, _NET_WM_ACTION_ABOVE, _NET_WM_ACTION_BELOW
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = 

As you can see, in the latter case Gtk+ doesn't set the window to have fullscreen state properly, thus compiz can't handle it like a normal fullscreen window.
From first inspection, it looks like Gtk+ sees the window is unmapped and tries to set the STATE property by itself, which conforms to EWMH for unmapped windows. The problem is that the MapRequest event triggered by gtk_window_show is delivered earlier than the PropertyNotify event triggered by gtk_window_fullscreen for some Gtk internal reason, so compiz thinks that the application tries to set the property for a managed window and ignores that change (which also conforms to EWMH, see the first few sentences of http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#id2507241).

For getting this problem fixed, it looks like you'll need to ask Gtk+ people to make sure that any pending _NET_WM_STATE property changes are sent out on gtk_window_show before the actual XMapWindow() call.

caolanm->mclasen: See #8, agree that this a gtk2 issue ?

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