I am having an issue with window position ever since i installed the proprietary nvidia driver and enabled desktop effects. Every window I open ends up with the title bar off-screen, and the menus underneath the top bar. I'm using Fedora 6, and gnome. Anyone else run into this, and solved it? I'd appreciate any help.

Compiz (desktop effects) isn't loading the "place" plugin.

I've fixed this before, but its been a while since I've used gnome so bear with me...

1) install gconf-editor ( yum install gconf-editor ).
2) run gconf-editor either via a terminal or else from Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor
3) navigate to apps --> compiz --> general --> allscreens --> options and edit the active_plugins node on the right
4) put "place" in the series right after "resize" (with commas and such to keep them seperate)
5) disable & re-enable desktop effects.

Worked beautifully, thank you very much

I just tried this since my window locations always seems to reset to default every time I restart an app and it didn't work.

Is there not a way for gnome to remember the last position you closed a certain app? (save window location/position)

thanks
-MD

I had this problem, plus I also had "Place Windows" activated in CompizConfig Settings Manager. So I just deactivated the "Put" plugin and now it all seems to be ok. Thanks for the heads-up.