window menu doesn't open with decorations turned off

[Joseph Lansdowne]

Binary package hint: compiz

With window decorations disabled, defined mouse and keyboard shortcuts (in CCSM's General Options) should cause the window menu to appear, but don't.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

Right, the window menu is provided by the window decoration. I'm
pretty sure that you need a decorator running to get the window menu

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:23 PM, J <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: compiz
>
> With window decorations disabled, defined mouse and keyboard shortcuts
> (in CCSM's General Options) should cause the window menu to appear, but
> don't.
>
> ** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
>     Importance: Undecided
>         Status: New
>
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> Title:
>  window menu doesn't open with decorations turned off
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[Joseph Lansdowne (j49137)]

So there's no way around it? I mean, you don't need a decorator for any other popup menu. I guess I could see if it's possible to create a metacity theme that has no borders...

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:31 PM, J <email address hidden> wrote:
> So there's no way around it?  I mean, you don't need a decorator for any
> other popup menu.  I guess I could see if it's possible to create a
> metacity theme that has no borders...

ccsm -> window decorator -> window decoration match -> change it to be
a blank field.

:)

The decorator is still running, at this point, but no decorations are
requested so no decorations will be drawn. Hitting alt-space should
still bring up the window menu. The reason we have it in the decorator
is that I'm trying to keep platform dependent code out of compiz.

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[Joseph Lansdowne (j49137)]

Oh, nice; I didn't even think of that. And now I get shadows, so even better.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

Experimenting with bug 1002602, I found a workaround for this.

If you don't need the decoation bar:

Set "Decoration Windows" to "none"

Leave other settings as they are.

The window menu (alt+right click or space) will be available.

Windows will also have shadows for borders.

If you don't need shadows or any kind of border:

Adjust the settings for "Active/Inactive Shadow"

Leave "Shadow windows" set to "any"

Without this, the decorator will not run, ergo no window menu.