Disabled Desktop Effects Stopped Window Function

flebber · 11-24-2006, 06:21 AM

I enabled Desktop Effects, was using them, I went and disabled them following instructions from the Fedora Rendering Project . However after I loggged back in all open windows lost the ability (and bar) to be minimised maximised and closed or even moved. So I enabled the effects again and logged out/in and with effects on my windows buttons were restored and working. I want to be able to disable effects when I have a heavy workload but want the windows to function. Any ideas ?

I am using FC6. My card is Geforce FX5600, and I used the dkms enabled nvidia driver from Dries to enable the effects.

Here is the Xorg.conf I used to disable effects

Quote:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "yes"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "intl"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "Monitor 1280x1024"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.5 - 79.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

And this is what I did to renable.

Quote:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "yes"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Hitboxx · 11-24-2006, 07:24 AM

When you lose the window borders and titlebars, just run 'metacity' command.

flebber · 11-24-2006, 07:38 AM

That easy

. Thanks for that.

flebber · 11-29-2006, 10:17 AM

The only problem is that I now have to run ´metacity´ after every boot. Could this be amended to the xorg.conf to make this automatic.

Hitboxx · 11-29-2006, 03:52 PM

Why do you have to run it everytime? I don't understand. You disable desktop effects, you lose those things, run metacity once and reboot your system. Once rebooted everything should be normal. Isn't it??

flebber · 11-29-2006, 05:25 PM

I disabled effects. I ran metacity. BUt every time I reboot or log out log in I need to run metacity, otherwise I have no window function as before.

Hitboxx · 11-29-2006, 10:15 PM

Put "metacity &" on a new line in your ".bash_profile" in your home directory. This will launch it every time you log in. Also check what's the case with root account, no borders there?