[ubuntu-uk] No title bar on windows.

Andrew Jenkins andrew.jenkins at bigfoot.com
Wed Dec 12 21:01:01 GMT 2007


Michael Holloway wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:25 +0000, Ian Pascoe wrote:
>> Andy, which desktop you using?
>>
>> There appears to be a couple of known problems with Compis and title bar
>> locking off screen, eithre from launch or after being accidentally moved
>> there and not being able to drag it back.
>>
>> E
> 
> I think more importantly, what video card are you using - let me guess,
> NVidia? There has been a problem with this for ages, since the old
> compiz,  through beryl, and now into Compiz-Fusion (Which ubuntu calls
> Advanced Desktop Effects)
> 
> There have been many a work-around in the past,some which still work,
> some dont.
> 
> There general consensus seems to be to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> file,  find the device sections add add the two "AddRGb...."'s as
> follows:
> 
> //
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Video Card"
> 	Driver		"nvidia"
> 	Busid		"PCI:1:0:0"
> 	Option		"AddARGBVisuals"	"True"
> 	Option		"AddARGBGLXVisuals"	"True"
> EndSection
> //
> 
> I give that about a 10% chance of working (sorry)... however, and this is the 
> part that i throw out the the community... in beryl-manager
> there was an option to set something to "copy". Can't remember what 
> it was, but it worked. Does anyone know what i'm talking about,or if
> there is a similar option somewhere in compiz?
> 
> 

Actually it's an ATI Radeon card. I may try the edit to 'xorg.conf'
but for now I'll just remember the Alt-Click trick (I didn't know
of that one).

Andy Jenkins.



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