must reload "window manager" in compiz at start up

[brandon]

Binary package hint: compiz

at start up, the global menu on the bottom does not display automatically. also, at each windown, the min/max/close buttons on the top right does not appear. my computer is also being pushed back and hidden behind the upper panel bar.

everything is ok after i reload the window manager from the compiz icon.

i am using eeeubuntu (hardy version 8.04)

fyi, everything used to work fine, so i am not sure if it is because i made some changes which lead to this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 31 23:29:25 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-log
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-utils
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-eeepc i686

[LumpyCustard (orangelumpycustard)]

Could be related to 294055?

[LumpyCustard (orangelumpycustard)]

Marking as duplicate of 220443. Please disassociate if necessary.

[Hew (hew)]

This is nothing like bug 220443, unmarked as dupe.

[Mark Rabideau (manyroads)]

I am having the same problem but with the Ibex version of Ubuntu. Running Dell e1505 with nVidia.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[brandon (brandonmong)]

Hi,

With the latest Ubuntu, I still noticed problems with compiz not loading at
startup.

However, if I change the desktop appearance to "Best performance" then
compiz starts up fine.

Hope this helps and thanks for following up with my ticket.

Brandon

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Robert Ancell
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue
> for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> must reload "window manager" in compiz at start up
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291954
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: compiz
>
> at start up, the global menu on the bottom does not display automatically.
> also, at each windown, the min/max/close buttons on the top right does not
> appear. my computer is also being pushed back and hidden behind the upper
> panel bar.
>
> everything is ok after i reload the window manager from the compiz icon.
>
> i am using eeeubuntu (hardy version 8.04)
>
> fyi, everything used to work fine, so i am not sure if it is because i made
> some changes which lead to this.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Oct 31 23:29:25 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-log
> NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
> Package: gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-1ubuntu5
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-utils
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-eeepc i686
>

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Set what to best performance, exactly? I can't find a setting for compiz or the desktop in general that matches that.

[giantclam (giantclam2005-lp)]

I am having the same problem in 10.04. I did not have it in 9.04. Reloading the windows manager from the compiz icon always fixes it, but I was just curious as to what causes this bug. Thanks.

-edgar

[Jason Cade (cadejas)]

I am having the same problem in 10.04. I updated this morning & was prompted to restart. After I restarted, I had no title-bars, etc (no window decoration). I found this thread and installed fusion-icon. I can restart the window manager via fusion-icon as stated above, but I'd really like to know the root-cause of this issue and get it fixed up.

[Jacob Litewski (j.litewski)]

Are you guys using Emerald or Metacity as the Decorator? I have this problem when I use Emerald (where the Window Decorator doesn't show up on log in). Usually an Alt+F2 and running "emerald --raplace" or just logging out and logging back in fixes it usually.

[axel (axel334)]

This bug also affects me. I have to use 'Reload window manager' option from Fusion Icon almost every time after I start my system (Mint 9 - Isadora). I have the newest version of Compiz for Lucid. I don't know if this is Emerald bug or Compiz bug. But this makes using Emerald almost useless and very annoying. I use Emerald 0.72 I i haven't found any new version of Emerald.
In Compiz manager - effects - window decoration I have "emerald --replace" and in start-up "compiz --replace".

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for compiz (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]