AIGLX but no window decs [SOLVED]

albright · Last edited by albright on Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

I have a fujitsu p-7010 (Intel Corporation 82852/855GM).

I have AIGLX running, using Hanno's overlay. Compiz works
perfectly. But gnome-window-decorator does not generate
any decorations (no error is reported).

Funny thing - this used to work a while ago (but there have been
many updates to kde, compiz, mesa etc in the interim).

Any advice would be appreciated.

SiRuS · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:39 am Post subject:

albright -

I have AiGLX working great on my i915GM with all the plugins functioning except water.

Here are the current releases I have installed:

Make sure you have xorg-server-1.1.1-r2.

Here is the current compiz start script I am using, this is the default script that comes with compiz from hanno's overlay

albright · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject:

I have exactly the same packages installed that you list. The script
starts compiz perfectly, and appears to start gnome-window-decorator,
but not title bar, borders, buttons -- nothing. The only message
the script returns is this (I got this same message when gwd used
to work):

KK_r · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 182

try starting both compiz and the decorator with dbus-launch like this:

albright · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject:

thanks for the suggestion but alas, dbus-launch makes absolutely
no difference ...

I installed gnome out of curiosity - gnome-window-decorator does
not work in a gnome session either

albright · Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: solution elementary

Somehow my gconf configuration got screwed up and
"decoration" was *NOT* in the list of enabled modules
in the compiz section. As soon as I put decoration back
in, window decorations worked.

KK_r · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 182

gconf is deprecated. csm is the shit now.
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_pF_ · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:15 pm Post subject:

KK_r · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 182

Oh, sorry. Didn't think of that. Install quinnstorm then

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_pF_ · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject:

In my experience compiz-quinnstorm does not work with AIGLX.

albright · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:07 am Post subject:

_pF_

Havin_it · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject: Re: solution elementary

albright · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject:

with the evil program gconf-editor (you won't
enjoy it, but it works

)

Headrush · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject:

Havin_it · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject:

albright · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject:

Havin_it, when you look in /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options
what is listed under "active plugins" ...

There should be a whole whack of them and they should all be under
the plugins section of compiz in gconf-editor. Maybe somehow they did
not get installed when you installed compiz. When I installed
compiz, the plugins were just there ...

Havin_it · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:51 am Post subject:

Well, the main difference between us (unless in addition you have previously been running a GNOME desktop) is that I'm not using any overlay, just the ~x86 compiz from portage. Is there somewhere I could get a tarball of the gconf tree? Or failing that, just a more complete listing of what should be in there...I've been googling, but to no avail

To answer your question, the only plugin that has a sub-key under /apps/compiz/plugins is /fade - all the plugins I've tried work, it's just the lack of window-chrome...

albright · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:19 am Post subject:

That's probably your problem. I would grab an overlay (I use
Hanno's) and emerge as the howto suggests ... worked for me

Havin_it · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:24 am Post subject:

Hm... was afraid someone would say that. Not that I have anything against overlays, but I've held off this long because I was waiting for it to hit portage properly. I guess I'll settle for submitting a bug about the window-deco problem. In the meantime I can still show off the effects when there's a Windows user around

Havin_it · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject:

It seems the problem might be that there is no theme that compiz can use.

Can anyone suggest how I can get/build a theme to test? I already installed metacity (as a dep of compiz) and I know it has some themes, but can I use those?

Gremo · Guru Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 450

sorry men, where i can find updated ebuilds for mesa and xorg-server?
i can't find them both on hanno and xgl-coffe overlay

zaphyr · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:46 pm Post subject:

I am also having problems with the window decorations, but not with AIXGL, just the normal one.
I have tried to set both gnome and gtk window-decorator in
/usr/local/bin/compiz-decorator but nothing works.
I can't use the desktop at all actually, because it wont register my keystrokes..
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