Gnome/Compiz/ATI/AIGLX issue

[gbrethen]

OK, Compiz is running, and running well! I have 2 issues I would love to solve... 1) There is a white space extending from the taskbar and also about a 4px whitespace around pop-up menus? 2) I get flickering when the screensaver is running? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[crdlb]

For 1, that is an Xorg bug (fixed in 1.4). You can avoid it by changing the shadow radius in Window Decoration to 9 (note that this may not work via ccsm if you've changed to the flat file backend). You can also put "!dock" (without the quotes) in the Shadow Windows field to disable shadows entirely on those windows (this *will* work on flat file).

For 2, OpenGL in compiz with the DRI drivers does not work well yet; plans are in place to fix it.

[gbrethen]

The !dock did the trick for the taskbar, but what about the whitespace around tooltips?

Thank you for your help and knowledge!

[crdlb]

Oh, you can just completely blank that field.

As an alternative, you can set that field back to any and run: gconftool-2 -s /apps/compiz/plugins/decoration/allscreens/options/shadow_radius -t float 9.0
Then you'll get fully working shadows on the panels too.

Edit: I made a mistake in the above command, it is now corrected. If you ran it already, please run the new version.

[gbrethen]

That was it...

Thanks.

On a side not, do you have any knowledge on how I can adjust where windows open up by default? Using gnome, they always open to the top left and are under the task bar. I have to always use the ALT F7 to move them from under the taskbar.

[crdlb]

Enable the Place Windows plugin in CCSM.

[gbrethen]

Awesome, Thank you for enlightening me...

Great project, I love it.