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Old 12th January 2007, 03:59 PM
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desktop-effects not working after todays FC6 update

Hi,

I had desktop-effects working perfectly. No stability issues or anything. After todays FC6 updates (which had glib and gtk stuff) desktop-effects no longer worked. The windows no longer had the title bars. When I tried to turn the desktop effects on from the command line, I got the following errors:

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[mjon@galactica ~]$ desktop-effects
gnome-window-decorator: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a decoration manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current decoration manager.
compiz: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
compiz: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
compiz: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
I don't know if the updates modified my xorg.conf, but that was really all I had to modify to get it to work. Here is a copy of my current xorg.conf:

Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Fri Dec 15 10:12:14 PST 2006

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

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

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

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Synaptics"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "HWCursor" "off"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
    Option         "LeftEdge" "120"
    Option         "RightEdge" "830"
    Option         "TopEdge" "120"
    Option         "BottomEdge" "650"
    Option         "FingerLow" "14"
    Option         "FingerHigh" "15"
    Option         "MaxTapMove" "110"
    Option         "VertScrollDelta" "20"
    Option         "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
    Option         "MinSpeed" "0.3"
    Option         "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

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

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

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite"
EndSection
I have an nvidia quadro nvs card, and I'm using the driver supplied by nvidia. Any help would be appreciated... I love my jell-o windows

hector
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Old 12th January 2007, 04:11 PM
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have you tried restarting X?
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Old 12th January 2007, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by mnisay
have you tried restarting X?
Yes. Several times. Also tried reinstalling the nvidia driver too, and then restarted the machine. No luck.
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Old 12th January 2007, 04:23 PM
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have you updated the kernel when you did and booted from it?

#ps axuw | grep desktop

oh, are you running beryl in anyway?
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Old 12th January 2007, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by mnisay
have you updated the kernel when you did and booted from it?

#ps axuw | grep desktop

oh, are you running beryl in anyway?
No, I didn't update the kernel. It wasn't one of the updates that showed up. I just install the updates whenever the little box says there are updates But kernel wasn't updated today -- I'm still at 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.

as for running:

ps axuw |grep desktop

I did so, but nothing was found -- I currently have desktop effects off.
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Old 12th January 2007, 04:50 PM
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Solved

Gah...

I had to add a line to xorg.conf. I guess this wasn't included in the backup copy I made:

In Section "Device"

*add*

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

Now everything works!

I wonder why the update crushed my xorg.conf file though?
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