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Title-bars disappear when desktop effects are enabled.

Hello,

I have a problem, my install works fine, but when I enable desktop effects from the "appearance" menu, the title bars on all my windows disappear. My graphics card is the Nvidia GeeForce 4 and I'm using the proprietary drives. Attached is my xorg.conf.

Thanks,
Bratmon

Hi -

I'm not sure exactly what distro and/or "desktop effects" manager you have, but this page has some excellent troubleshooting tips for Compiz:

http://wiki.compiz.org/Troubleshooting

For example:

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No Window Borders

When you start Compiz, your window borders disappear and you can no longer see each window's title, or minimize/maximize/close buttons. There are many potential causes for this very common problem, and is usually indicative of a Compiz or X server misconfiguration, or a misunderstanding of how Compiz is supposed to work.

Is a Window Decorator Running?

Check whether a window decorator is running. Enter the following command into a console window to find out:

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ps ax | egrep '(decorator|emerald)'

If you don't see any commands starting with "emerald", "gtk-window-decorator", or "kde-window-decorator", then no window decorator is running. Try starting Emerald with the following command:

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emerald --replace

'Hope that helps .. PSM

My distro is Ubuntu 9.10, as told by the sidebar and the effects are Ubuntu's "hide the branding". I'm traveling right now, I'll post again when I get home.

In Fedora, turning on 'desktop effects' causes Metacity to be replaced with Compiz Fusion.

Not sure if it's the same in Ubuntu, but I would think so.

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Originally Posted by paulsm4 (Post 3803793)

Thanks, it turns out the problem was with my nvida card. It works fine now.

Thanks for posting this response Paulsm4

I had lost my titlebar so there was no way to maximize minimize or close

I was unable to open a terminal windows. All that would appear was a white square

It turned out the my Nvidia card was set at a DefaultDepth 16 rather than DefaultDepth 24 in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

THANK YOU!