On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:39:49 -0800, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: > I upgraded a reasonably fresh install of FC5 (clean installation done a > little more than a month ago) to FC6 on Thursday and have been trying to > tinker around with the AIGLX/compiz features, but right away noticed a > problem: the title bar and window borders were missing. (See > http://bbnk.dhs.org/~rrodgers/aiglx_no_titlebar.png .) At first, I > thought it was just me, that I didn't know if the title bar had now been > separated or if the GUI had been made to be more Mac like, but it > bothered me that I could no longer resize or move windows. So I disabled > the desktop effects for the time being. > > A few minutes ago I logged in as root to do a few minor things very > quickly, and just for the heck of it enabled the desktop effects again. > I was pleasantly surprised to see the title bars and borders return to > the windows, and was able to use everything properly with wobbly > windows. I cheered; perhaps there was some sort of library dependency > that needed to be cleared up by a reboot (which I had done before > logging in as root). So I logged out as soon as I could and logged in as > my normal user, re-enabled the desktop effects and was once again > disappointed to see that my title bars and borders were gone. > > So, obviously, this is going to be a permissions issue... Can anyone > point me in the right direction as to which files need to have their > permissions changed, and to what those permissions should be? I had the same problem. My xorg.conf contained all the stuff like: Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" and Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "true" EndSection but it still didn't work. Yet when I downloaded and compiled Beryl (a Compiz fork) locally... that worked fine. So it didn't seem to be a problem with the drivers or X. I couldn't figure out what was wrong... but eventually I found a forum post that said to add this: Option "AIGLX" "true" To the Section "ServerLayout", and then restart X. I have no idea why this was required, but it worked for me with compiz. Choosing GNOME menu -> System -> Preferences -> Desktop Effects now results in a functioning compiz with window borders. Why Beryl worked ok without it is a mystery. It's just a shame that compiz interferes with Tremulous (a fps) and makes it all jerky... or I'd probably use it in place of metacity. I can't figure that one out -- I'd expect the window manager to get out of the way once a game as gone full screen.
