Window bar disappeard after enable "Extra" in Appearance Preference

[Kevin Wang]

After select the "system" -> "Preference" -> "Appearence" -> "Visual Effects", and choose "Extra", the window bar will disappear, please see the attachment for the screenshot. I verified on the SantaRosa and Weybridge platform, the same issue

[Kevin Wang (kevin-xuepu-wang)]

strace for gnome-appearance-properties

[Bart Samwel (bart-samwel)]

I can confirm this, I was just about to report the same problem. Switching back to "normal" visual effects gives me back my title bars immediately.

[Rolla Selbak (rolla-n-selbak)]

Tried with updated Alpha-2, same results for me on a Santa Rosa (T61 965GM)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That seems an issue with the compiz window decorator

[michelem (michele-marcucci)]

I have similar issue with an Intel 965 (Macbook Santarosa). Randomly the window decorator crashes and I have to go to the appeareance settings disable effects and re-enable it.
This is an output from .xsession-errors:

(PySwitcher.py:6924): Wnck-CRITICAL **: update_client_list: assertion `reentrancy_guard == 0' failed

(PySwitcher.py:6924): Wnck-CRITICAL **: update_client_list: assertion `reentrancy_guard == 0' failed

(PySwitcher.py:6924): Wnck-CRITICAL **: update_client_list: assertion `reentrancy_guard == 0' failed
JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]

(PySwitcher.py:6924): Wnck-CRITICAL **: update_client_list: assertion `reentrancy_guard == 0' failed
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffbe4 (GdkPixbuf at 0x83b39a8)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83b3c40)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83a2f90)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83b3a70)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83b3a70)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83a2ee8)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83a2f90)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83b3938)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83a2ee8)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83b3a00)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83a2e78)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83a2e78)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83a2e78)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83b3a38)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83b3d20)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ffcac (GdkPixbuf at 0x83b3d20)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x82ff

[Moritz Reiter (schallstrom)]

I have the same problem (using Nvidia GPU). When I enable visual effects the window decorations are gone.

[Moritz Reiter (schallstrom)]

Here's what I get when I run 'strace gtk-window-decorator --replace'.

[Moritz Reiter (schallstrom)]

I made a fresh install with alpha-6 snapshot and activated the Nvidia drivers through Administration/Hardware Drivers. Still the same problem: hardware acceleration works, compiz gets activated automatically after a restart, but window decorations are missing! I have to fall back to metacity in order to use hardy alpha-6.

In my opinion this is a major show stopper. Shouldn't importance be raised?

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Those of you with nvidia are having different problems, this problem is that the decorations go away when changing from Normal effects to Extra effects, not go away when you turn on effects.

As for this bug, I cannot reproduce in up-to-date hardy, can you try again?

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

I am closing this bug as it should be fixed now in hardy.

[xitix (iulian-manole)]

I have the same problem too (using Nvidia GPU). When I enable visual effects the window decorations are gone and terminal window is empty !

[justinf (justinf-live)]

Same thing here and whats ever stranger is that the is that my terminal is just an all white box when visual effects are turned on. With Visual effects turned off terminal is fine and so are the windows decorations.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

I already told you nvidia users have a different bug that has already been filed against jockey. Unless you are having problems with this using intel or ati do not reopen this bug.