FC6 AIGLX Issue: title bar missing from windows

khidzir khidzir at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 15:00:53 UTC 2006


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.

Hi,

Same thing over here.. under root login everything works great...but not
 with other normal users login...the window borders just won't show up...

> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Raymond
> 

rgds,
-khidzir




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