Compiz not showing title bars

[calberto]

I updated my fedora installation from 6 to 8 (not error/warnings during installation, so I can say it went fine).

Then tried to use compiz (using the 'desktop-effects'), but the title bars were lost. The conditions at the time:

* Compiz out of box
* Intel card (which worked just fine with compiz en fedora 6).
* Trying to use emerald to replace didn't work at all (killing gtk-window-decorator and calling ti again from command line does not show any error, not at all).
* Tried ALL the things I could find in google: nothing worked.

Then I tried with a geforce 8400 card:

* Compiz out of box nor Compiz fusion work.
* Nvidia card, same problem.
* Emeral nor gtk-window-decorator show errors.
* Calling 'desktop-effects' directly from bash does not show any error.
* Added all the options 'needed' for xorg.cong were added (AddARGBGLXVisuals, AllowGLXWithComposite, ...)

Not a single error message, and still, I just can't get this thing working, which makes me nuts, based on the fact that _seems_ nobody is getting this error in fedora with intel cards.

Any clue? Any information I could take a look at?

Thanks,
Carlos.

[calberto]

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/mouse"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "es"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x1024"
HorizSync 31.5 - 64.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[calberto]

Pasted my xorg.cong file, probably it will help...

[jdeslip]

You xorg.conf looks ok I think. (But I am not the best expert)

In my humble opinion, the compiz/compiz-fusion in the f8 repositories is complete garbage. I would uninstall and install leigh's version (which can do through yum). See the following thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=171130

[seby]

Yes. Follow leighs version and use the fusion icon to set the widows decorator to emerald.

[calberto]

It's now working nice, but emerald is re-starting every time I try to open a new application.

I get the next errors:

compiz (core) - Warn: Plugin 'core' already active
compiz (cube) - Warn: Failed to load slide: freedesktop

And then, a lot of:

A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"

Any idea?

Thanks.

[leigh123linux]

Try

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder26)  Thu Dec 13 18:56:19 PST 2007



Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option          "AIGLX" "on"
    Option	    "blank time" "0"
    Option	    "standby time" "0"
    Option	    "suspend time" "0"       
    Option	    "off time" "0"
    Option          "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier "Mouse0"
     Driver "mouse"
     Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
     Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
     Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
     Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
      Driver "kbd"
      Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
      Option "XkbLayout" "es"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
      Identifier "Monitor0"
      ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x1024"
      HorizSync 31.5 - 64.0
      VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0
      Option "dpms"
EndSection



Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
	Option	    "DPI" "96 x 96"
	Option	    "coolbits" "1"
	Option	    "TripleBuffer" "true"
	Option	    "RenderAccel" "True"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "1280x1024 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

I believe this option is causing your issues " Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" "

[calberto]

Thanks for the answer,

Removing that option from my xorg.conf actually did the trick :-D

But two things:
a) your xconf file is not working here.
b) I'm having a bad time re-sizing windows, as well as maximizing/minimizing them, since its just TOO slow.

Any idea?