FC6 AIGLX Issue: title bar missing from windows

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 1 16:21:11 UTC 2006


Andy Green wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 05:39, 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
> 
> The title and sizing borders are handled by a "Window Manager", when you start 
> compiz it forces your window manager to be metacity AIUI.  If metacity 
> crashes or fails to start for some reason, you will be left without a window 
> manager, and see what you saw.  

This is incorrect. Compiz *is* the window manager. Title bars might not 
show up due because the decorator is not running, there is a bug in the 
driver (Nvidia's latest beta driver for example) or your Xorg 
configuration requires some changes.

Rahul




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