iamjfarrell Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 I have been trying for what feels like forever to get this compiz-fusion stuff to work. I installed it using this installer. And whenever I start the compiz it immediately takes my window borders away and I can't really do anything untill I log out or Change to metacity or Kwin as the Windows Manager. Emerald Theme doesn't work for some reason but I have Emerald theme manager installed. But when in Kwin or metacity the compiz options and such don't work. I am so desperate. I don't know what to do. Any help would be appreciated! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/580879-compiz-no-borders-help-please/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDreamX Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 I had the exact same issue for hours yesterday. Make sure your xorg.conf file has been setup completely. Check the Ubuntu forums for ATi or nVidia specific issues. What finally fixed it for me was installing the Gnome Compiz manager. sudo apt-get gnome-compiz-manager Enable Compiz (you're probably doing this through System > Preferences >Desktop Effects?) then run the newly installed manager via System > Preferences > GL Desktop. Re-enable Metacity via the checkbox and you're problems should be gone :) Hope this works for you! I spent all day installing & removing Berl, Compiz, Compiz-Fusion, the initial desktop-effects package (old Compiz built in to Ubuntu) and reconfiguring (and crashing) the Xserver before finding out this trick on my own. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/580879-compiz-no-borders-help-please/#findComment-588777810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamjfarrell Posted August 14, 2007 Author Share Posted August 14, 2007 E: Invalid operation gnome-compiz-manager That's what I get when I put in the above code. I enable compiz threw Applications>System Tools>Compiz Fusion Icon. But, whenever I tried to use the compiz that comes with ubuntu my screen would just completely blank. You think that has anything to do with it? I feel like it might be my video card and I downloaded a driver but I can't install it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/580879-compiz-no-borders-help-please/#findComment-588778653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 This is what I had to do. edit your xorg.conf sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf Add this under the device section Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/580879-compiz-no-borders-help-please/#findComment-588779280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cucuma Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 Are you using emerald as your window decorator. If that is the case run compiz like this compiz --replace -c emerald & Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/580879-compiz-no-borders-help-please/#findComment-588779493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamjfarrell Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 cucuma said: Are you using emerald as your window decorator. If that is the case run compiz like this compiz --replace -c emerald & I have tried that and it doesnt do anything for me but start Compiz. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/580879-compiz-no-borders-help-please/#findComment-588780143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Veteran Posted August 15, 2007 Veteran Share Posted August 15, 2007 TheDreamX said: I had the exact same issue for hours yesterday. Make sure your xorg.conf file has been setup completely. Check the Ubuntu forums for ATi or nVidia specific issues. What finally fixed it for me was installing the Gnome Compiz manager. sudo apt-get gnome-compiz-manager Enable Compiz (you're probably doing this through System > Preferences >Desktop Effects?) then run the newly installed manager via System > Preferences > GL Desktop. Re-enable Metacity via the checkbox and you're problems should be gone :) Hope this works for you! I spent all day installing & removing Berl, Compiz, Compiz-Fusion, the initial desktop-effects package (old Compiz built in to Ubuntu) and reconfiguring (and crashing) the Xserver before finding out this trick on my own. Good luck. Shouldn't that be: sudo apt-get install gnome-compiz-manager See the "install" part. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/580879-compiz-no-borders-help-please/#findComment-588781686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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