No Window Borders when Desktop Effects Enabled

[vaughn]

This affects Intrepid Ibex Beta. After this morning's update, Ubuntu no longer draws window borders or allows me to move or resize windows when Desktop Effects are enabled.

My graphics card is an Intel 915GM. This card has had no problems with Compiz and has been running desktop effects since Gutsy.

[Cricket (shahmir-noorani)]

Can confirm the same problem on my Vostro 1500 (Nvidia GeForce 8400)

[Cricket (shahmir-noorani)]

Just subscribing to this.

[Artyom Pervukhin (logus)]

Please make sure you have compiz package installed.

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

I'm currently engaged in a chat with one of the compiz dev's @
http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=10230

I posted some diagnostics there. compiz is definitely installed on my system, I just checked with a sudo apt-get -s install compiz.

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

sorry about the spam; note that that forum is a support forum, but if other people are experiencing the exact same problem, methinks it's a bug.

[Cricket (shahmir-noorani)]

In my case, after I installed the compiz settings manager and checked which decorator it was using, for some reason it said emerald even though I can't recall setting it that. Even if I did, I didn't have emerald installed after the update, so the system had broken somehow.

All I did was reset the decorator to the default and restarted compiz and I had my borders back.

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

I definitely had and still have (just checked) emerald, and I set it in my settings box. Even so, I played with that thing for some time and couldn't get it to work, even with the gtk decorator.

[Adam K Kirchhoff (adamk-voicenet)]

Vaugn, if you run 'compiz &' in a terminal, please show us the output.

For anyone interested, here is an exchange between thinboy and myself. His drivers appear to be setup properly, as far as I can tell:

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=10230

[Rhamnusia (jurgenvonoerthel)]

I'm suffering from the same problem. After an update from 8.04 to 8.10 no window decorator works under compiz. I've noticed some updates about compiz/window decoration today (November 7th), but this didn't solve the problem.

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

Just realized, I think I have the same graphics controller as the reporter (915GM). This is probably hardware specific. I'm not sure what drivers I'm using; it would be nice if someone else could file a bug against the affected driver (my xorg.0.log is on the compiz forum). Or tell me how to find out. I think I'll go ask that in the questions tracker, actually.

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

When I turn compiz on, window borders disappear (i.e the window decorator stops working). Compiz complains of problems with "Texture-from-pixmap", whatever that means.... As you can see from the LP page, there is a common denominator: xf86-video-intel (I have version 2.4.1, don't know what the original reporter had... I got this info from "info intel" at the command line.).

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

Now linked upstream.

[Gordon Jin (gordon-jin)]

Please provide the necessary info according to http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html. I don't have concrete idea about the driver version used in Ubuntu 8.10. Please also attach glxinfo output as I need to know the mesa version.

[Rhamnusia (jurgenvonoerthel)]

I indeed also have an Intel graphics chip (GMA 3100). I've found out that the problem disappears when I change my color depth in xorg.conf to 24 bit.

Section "Screen", DefaultDepth 24

I had changed it to 16 to speed up Compiz.
Hopefully this will help other people too!

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please provide the necessary info according to
> http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html. I don't have concrete
> idea about the driver version used in Ubuntu 8.10. Please also attach glxinfo
> output as I need to know the mesa version.
>
Some of that information (IIRC including glxinfo) is available on the compiz forum (chase pointers via LP to get there).

As for the other info, I'll get to it in my copious free time.

[Gordon Jin (gordon-jin)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Please provide the necessary info according to
> > http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html. I don't have concrete
> > idea about the driver version used in Ubuntu 8.10. Please also attach glxinfo
> > output as I need to know the mesa version.
> >
> Some of that information (IIRC including glxinfo) is available on the compiz
> forum (chase pointers via LP to get there).

So you mean http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=10230. Well ...

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

That worked for a while, but my computer is not very high end, and one day compiz died horribly (i.e. everything except window decorations (borders) turned white, decorations turned black, and I had to switch tty to kill compiz and get my desktop back). Since then my computer has been slower than normal, sometimes hanging bizarrely when I /wake it up/ from "lock screen" (password protected screensaver), and compiz does the turn-everything-white trick whenever I try to start it. So I guess I'm stuck with metacity for now.

[Haihao-xiang (haihao-xiang)]

I can't get your logs from http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=10230 (need to register). Could you attach them here?

[Michael Fu (michael-fu-intel)]

Kevin, please reopen this bug if you are able to attach log here... thanks.

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

Created an attachment (id=23572)
glxinfo

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, I'll go get the other info too now.

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

Graphics card (seems to be a common denominator):915GM
system arch.: i686
Xorg.0.log etc.: (coming soon)
kernel:2.6.27-7-generic
Distro:Ubuntu
Machine:Inspiron B130
Connector: It's a laptop, not sure what to put here...

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

Created an attachment (id=23573)
Xorg.0.log as it appeared when the bug struck

Note that xorg.conf has not been configured to enable "verbose mode" yet.

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

remove "NEEDINFO" keyword per instructions, sorry about all the spam.

[Michel Dänzer (michel-daenzer)]

Does it work if you use depth 24 rather than 16? If so this looks like bug 20479, so maybe the problem is at least partly in the X server...

[Thinboy00 (thinboy00)]

Yes, it definitely works in 24 bit. I can provide logs etc. if you need them. I wasn't sure whether to tag this as a duplicate/etc, so I left it "reopened".

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

video issue bug also forwarded upstream previously by reporters.

[Haihao-xiang (haihao-xiang)]

DRI1 has gone away.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

The upstream bug has been closed as no longer an issue in DRI2, which is what we're shipping as the default in Karmic (indeed, DRI1 is no longer available on -intel with karmic), so I'm closing this bug as resolved.