Can't see the borders on my windows anymore....

[yodabear]

Hi guys,

I hope i'm on the right place with my question because it's driving me crazy.

I just installed Fedora Core 6 and tried the stable nVidia driver and the last BETA driver but both gives the same problem.

After enabling Desktop Effects my borders around my windows disapear and i can't resise, maximize or move my windows anymore.

Is this a known problem?

Hope you can help me!

Regards,

Maikel

[RYX]

Hi Maikel,

it looks like the decorator is not loaded or the decoration plugin does not match the decorator version. Try holding <Alt> and dragging a window - if you can move the window, you are most likely missing the decorator. If so, simply enter "gtk-window-decorator --replace &" in a console window.

best regards

RYX

[yodabear]

Hi RYX,

Thx for the quick reply! :)

I got the following when i try to do what you say:

[root@mail ~]# gtk-window-decorator --replace &
[1] 20383
[root@mail ~]# -bash: gtk-window-decorator: command not found

[1]+ Exit 127 gtk-window-decorator --replace

I tried to install it via Yum but can't find the package.

Hope you can help me further.

Thx a lot!

Maikel

[yodabear]

I looked a bit further and i found what you said.

it's called "gnome-window-decorator" on my system. At least that is what i think.

I did what you said but it don't show any result.

Do you have any other suggestions?


Thx a lot.

[RYX]

You can try to run compiz directly in a terminal to see if any errors are output. Maybe the decoration plugin is not enabled. Try running the following in a terminal:compiz --replace gconf
(You can cancel with Strg+C). If you see any errors about plugins not loaded, you have conflicting plugins somewhere (or the order in which the plugin are loaded is wrong). If you don't see any output and still nothing works, try the following:compiz --replace gconf decoration &
That way you manually load compiz with the decoration plugin.

:)

[yodabear]

Thx m8! :)

It finally worked.

After an update i lost my "windows" and this is how i got fixed it:

reboot to runlevel 3
remove xorg.conf
re-install nvidia driver
add in XF86Config the line "Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" under the section "Device".

then it all works.

Thx for the help!