Bug#459454: compiz refuses to work (window boarder disappear, windows are unmoveable)

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Juergen Kosel wrote:
> Package: compiz
> Version: 0.6.3~git20071208.25941d14-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
> after update from stable to testing, compiz refuses to work anymore.
> Which means, that if compiz is started with `compiz --replace` the
> boarders of all windows (xterms, etc) disapear and the windows become
> unmoveable.
>
> The following is the output of compiz:
> compiz --replace
> Checking for Xgl: not present.
> Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:5b60 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
> Trying again with indirect rendering:
> Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
> Checking for non power of two support: present.
> Checking for Composite extension: present.
> Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (2048):
> Passed.
> Checking for nVidia: not present.
> Checking for FBConfig: present.
> Checking for Xgl: not present.
> Starting gtk-window-decorator
> /usr/bin/compiz.real (cube) - Warn: Failed to load slide: freedesktop
>
> Due to the line "Checking for Xgl: not present.", I guess that there is
> something foul with package dependencies.
>   

This Xgl check is only here to load compiz in a different way when Xgl
is running.

You're probably missing some plugins. Make sure "decoration" is loaded.
You can use ccsm (package compizconfig-settings-manager) to select it
(or gconf if you like it, see http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/11253.html).

Brice