No window decorations when compositing disabled

[Shahar Or]

Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace

Dear ones,

As soon as I disable compositing the window decorations and the plasma bar get all screwed up. I will provide a screen shot.

With compositing everything seems alright and with compiz everything seems alright also.

Blessed week.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 14 22:38:16 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: kwin (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2438): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Is KWin running when you have no decorations? (You could set ksysguard to filter on kwin, then disable compositing.)

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Dear Jonathan,

Yes, after disabling compositing ("desktop effects" in "Configure desktop effects" to be clear) and clicking "Apply", kwin still runs.

Screen shot attached.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Would you, by any chance, be using an ati video card?

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Dear Jonathan, I happen to be actually.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57]
 Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0530]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR+ FastB2B+ DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 66 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
 Region 2: Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb

Full lspci and other collected information on this system can be found in bug #484141.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Ok, yeah. This is bug 434376. Thanks for the report.