Question about effects and 7.10

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:46:14PM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:29:07PM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> >> Just did an upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10.
> >>
> >> Most seems well, except when I enable desktop effects from "appearance", 
> >> the windows decorations disappear (title bar, the X and _ buttons, etc.) 
> >> so I can't move the windows anymore.  If I revert to the "no effects" 
> >> setting, they reappear.
> > 
> > gtk-window-decorator is not starting up for some reason.
> 
> :-/  Weird.
>
> >> Any ideas?
> > 
> > Did you use compiz or beryl with 7.04?  Did you change any configuration
> > settings?
> 
> To tell the truth it was so long ago that I had set things up and not 
> mucked with them again that I don't remember.  I had to change out the 
> video card partway through to a different chipset and after reading that 
> the projects had merged I didn't think it was something worth fussing 
> about anymore.

You could install compizconfig-settings-manager, start it (Alt-F2, ccsm;
or via the System -> Preferences menu -> Advanced Desktop Effects
Settings) and check whether the "Window Decoration" plugin is enabled.

> > Resetting the compiz configuration to defaults might help.
> > Unfortunately I don't know how to do that.  Perhaps removing the
> > ~/.config/compiz directory would be enough, or perhaps you need to do
> > something with gconf-editor too.
> 
> That directory doesn't exist on this system. :-(

Oh, right, I asked ccsm to switch to flat-file configuration backend a
while ago.  (I wanted to have different shortcuts in metacity and in
compiz).

Marius Gedminas
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