Compiz and no titlebar

[luvemil]

I'm currently using FC 10 x86_64, with an ATI 4850 Graphic Card (latest drivers installed), and I'm having a little trouble with compiz.

When I start using compiz windows manager, all the windows lose the titlebar, so I cannot do anything. The only way I have is to select metacity windows manager from the compiz icon, but that way I can't use the effects of compiz.

Any idea or suggestion? (maybe a guide to follow , even though I already followed two without solving the problem)

[Hlingler]

This happens sometimes. Try using fusion-icon to "Restart Window Manager" (the Compiz window manager). See if that helps....

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[luvemil]

This happens sometimes. Try using fusion-icon to "Restart Window Manager" (the Compiz window manager). See if that helps....

V

Already tried, it doesn't work. Right now I'm gonna reinstall compiz from the very beginning and see what happens.

[Hlingler]

Well, if you're going to do that, then get the latest C-F stuff from the Fusion Repo - see the thread in "Guides and How-Tos" section.

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[luvemil]

Reinstalled everything, now it works perfectly. I used the following guides:
1st step - http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=155503&highlight=compiz+install
2nd step - http://ranjith.itpublic.in/install-compiz-fusion-in-fedora-10/

Actually I don't now why it didn't work before, probably it's because I used kmod instead of akmod while installing the drivers for the first time, however, now it is perfect.
Thank you for helping. If anyone has the same problem just ask.

[shess01]

I ran into the same problem -no title bar, no windows border, no way to move or minimize a window. As far as I could tell, the trouble stemmed from "Compiz Window Manager" trying to use "KDE4 Window Decorator" at X startup. I could get it to work after bumping it with the fusion-icon. I got it fixed, for me anyway, by creating the fusion-icon.desktop file in the kde Autostart directory and having fusion-icon start automagically at login. Details below.


[stephen@macbeth Autostart]$ pwd
/home/stephen/.kde/Autostart

[stephen@macbeth Autostart]$ ls -ltr
total 16
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stephen stephen 170 2009-01-23 22:25 Screenlets Daemon.desktop
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stephen stephen 176 2009-01-23 22:26 OutputScreenlet.desktop
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stephen stephen 179 2009-01-23 22:26 AppMenuScreenlet.desktop
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stephen stephen 134 2009-03-26 03:40 fusion-icon.desktop

[stephen@macbeth Autostart]$ cat fusion-icon.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=fusion-icon
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/fusion-icon
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

My Compiz packages, just for kicks.


[root@macbeth Autostart]# rpm -qa | grep compiz
compiz-plugins-main-0.8.3-2.fc10.i386
compiz-fusion-release-1-6.noarch
compizconfig-backend-gconf-0.8.3-1.fc10.i386
compiz-gnome-0.8.3-2.fc10.i386
compizconfig-python-0.8.3-1.fc10.i386
compiz-0.8.3-2.fc10.i386
compiz-plugin-peek-0.8.3-1.fc10.i386
compiz-kde-0.8.3-2.fc10.i386
compiz-plugin-screensaver-0.8.3-1.fc10.i386
compiz-bcop-0.7.8-1.fc10.noarch
compiz-manager-0.6.0-10.fc10.noarch
compiz-plugins-unsupported-0.8.3-1.fc10.i386
compizconfig-backend-kconfig-0.8.3-1.fc10.i386
compiz-plugins-extra-0.8.3-1.fc10.i386
libcompizconfig-0.8.3-1.fc10.i386