gtk-window-decorator does not display borders

[Arthur Peters]

Binary package hint: compiz

I am using feisty i386 (installed Herd 4, updated to 20070227). On a Compaq R3000z AMD64 laptop with a GeForce4 400 Go.

I enabled compiz using the button in desktop-effects. Compiz proper works fine (wobbly windows, neat alt-TAB, etc), but there are no window decorations. gtk-window-decorator is running (visible in ps output), but it doesn't appear to do anything.

The output of "desktop-effects" contain a lot of messages like:

/usr/bin/compiz.real: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x3c000ee to texture
/usr/bin/compiz.real: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32

[Florin Iucha (florin-iucha)]

I can confirm the problem report. It occurs on a Dell 490N with a "nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285]" card with the proprietary nvidia driver and two monitors.

I can see the gtk-window-decorator running and I have similar entries in .xsession-errors:
gtk-window-decorator: Could not acquire decoration manager selection on screen 0
 display ":0.0"
/usr/bin/compiz.real: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
/usr/bin/compiz.real: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
/usr/bin/compiz.real: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
inotify_add_watch: No such file or directory

[Florin Iucha (florin-iucha)]

I got it working by adding

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

to the xorg.conf and also adding

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

to the "Device" section.

[Arthur Peters (amp)]

Changing to confirmed because it is.

This is not a compiz bug. It seems that this should be fixed by adding the needed X configuration automatically from some script. Perhaps /usr/sbin/nvidia-glx-config.

Please change the package if you know where it belongs.

[Steve Klabnik (steve-klabnik)]

Doing the same thing as Florin worked for me. The AddARGBGLXVisuals was neccesary.

[gabe (urmom111)]

This happened to me on Upgrade Gutsy.
 Florin Iucha's fix worked great.