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by Dean Hamstead-2 :: Rate this Message:

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it could be broken packages

run

compiz --replace

from a terminal and see if you get errors

Dean

Massimo Savino wrote:

>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Massimo Savino* <north.twilight@...
> <mailto:north.twilight@...>>
> Date: Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Compiz window decorations missing
> To: Jaime Ochoa Malagón <chptma@... <mailto:chptma@...>>
>
>
> I do have gtk-window-decorator installed via the libdecoration packages,
> and emerald, as well as fusion-icon.
>
> Under fusion-icon, if I select Compiz instead of the default Metacity, I
> lose all window decorations.
>
> Any other ideas as to the source?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mass
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Jaime Ochoa Malagón <chptma@...
> <mailto:chptma@...>> wrote:
>
>     well your lack of window decorations is because compiz don't have
>     perse this you need another program to take charge of this
>
>     gtk-window-decorator
>     kde-window-decorator
>     emerald
>
>     and I stronlgly recommends run fusion-icon or compiz-manager to run
>     compiz instead of oinly run compiz...
>
>     there is a way get settings of compiz stored in the kde settings but
>     you should use google because I don't remember about it, then I'm not
>     be able to answer your question...
>
>     use ccsm that works fine.....
>
>     On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Massimo Savino
>     <north.twilight@... <mailto:north.twilight@...>> wrote:
>      > Hi all,
>      >
>      > Just wondering if I can ask about compiz -- I have it installed
>     with the
>      > following programs:
>      >
>      >  compizconfig-backend-gconf compizconfig-settings-manager
>      > compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main
>      > compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported compiz-core compiz libcompizconfig0
>      > libdecoration0 libdecoration0-dev
>      >
>      > ... as well as the dependencies implied by them, using the Shame
>     repository
>      > at:
>      >
>      > # Unofficial Compiz repository
>      > deb
>     http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-lenny/desktopfx/unstable/ ./
>      >
>      > Compiz appears to start with Metacity as the default WM.
>      >
>      > Every time I start compiz from the cmd line, my window decorations
>      > disappear. I tried the instructions at Brice Goglin's blog at
>      > http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/11253.html
>      >
>      > ... and at the end of the comments it says that if you want to
>     use the
>      > instructions properly, you have to remove ccsm and another deb.
>      >
>      > My question is, what if I would like to remove the gconf changes
>     instead?
>      >
>      > I am running Debian lenny on a dual-core Pentium with 4gb RAM on
>     an EVGA
>      > nForce 780i SLI 775 A1 board, and a BFG NVidia GeForce 8800 GT
>     card with
>      > 512mb GDDR3 RAM.
>      >
>      > If you need any other information, just let me know, and I'll be
>     happy to
>      > provide.
>      >
>      > Thank you
>      > Mass
>      >
>      >
>      >
>
>
>
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