ubuntu 7.10: "Visual Effects" -> no window decorations!?
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Have you had a look at System > Preferences > Appearance yet?
Yes, sure! There you can set all the details to your theme and select to have certain options of the 3d desktop or not. And in the Emeralad settings you can also select "window decorations" which I selected...
I think that only after installing the gnome-compiz-manager there is the extended preferences of the "Visual Settings" available. Which means that before installing I could only choose between "none", "normal" and "everything", or something like that - and after installing there was also "custom" available with a button for the detailed options...
At least: it works only until I use the "Application Switcher". Then the window decorations are suddenly gone!?
jakewine, could you test that, please??
It's been working pretty well for me for the last few days. I tried switching windows with alt-tab (not sure if that's what you meant) and it works fine.
I did lose my decorations once since applying this fix, but I'm not sure how since i was pretty engrossed in my work and only noticed later on that they disappeared. i got them back by running "sudo emerald restart" from a command prompt.
Yes, that's the one I meant. So maybe you need the open Compiz plug-ins instead of the one that is installed by default?
OK, I just checked: apt-get (or synaptic) knows a few packages with the name compiz and plugin...
I have these installed: "compiz-plugins", "compiz-fusion-plugins-main", and "compiz-fusion-plugins-extra"
I did not yet install: "compiz-compcomm-plugins-main" (description: Collection of plugins from OpenCompositing for Compiz) -- when I try to install this package, I get the message it automatically removes "compiz", "compiz-fusion-plugins-main" and "gnome-compiz-manager" -- this cannot be what you mean, is it??
I did not yet install: "compiz-compcomm-plugins-main" (description: Collection of plugins from OpenCompositing for Compiz) -- when I try to install this package, I get the message it automatically removes "compiz", "compiz-fusion-plugins-main" and "gnome-compiz-manager" -- this cannot be what you mean, is it??
I just removed "gnome-compiz-manager" and every other package that does not directly come with the ubuntu CD ("libgnome-compiz-manager0" and "compizconfig-settings-manager")...
...and believe it or not: window decorations WORK!!
Only thing is: I have to stick to the "none", "normal" and "everything" selection and cannot select "custom" plugins!
Well, at the moment it seems to be an improvement - I'll have to see if using "normal" is better than using "none" because selecting does not work...
I had this problem and finally sorted it out. I removed and purged all of the bits of comiz, emerald, and beryl and reinstalled the metapackages. Everything works now. My situation was I had beryl under 6.10 (source) and 7.04 (packages). My assumption is that there were some leftover bits from the prior installations.
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) and have a look for "open compiz plug-ins"!
Very Interesting / Strange !!
