Bug#467399: marked as done (compiz fails to take control of windows)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #467399,
regarding compiz fails to take control of windows
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Package: compiz
Version: 0.6.3~git20071222.061ff159-1
Severity: normal
I'm trying compiz for the first time. When I start it up, all the window
borders disappear. No sign of compiz taking control appears. Also, I cannot
see what I type in any terminal window. It seems to respond to clicks to
bring other terminals to the front, but I can't see it respond in any other
way.
Fortunately, I can revert to metacity.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages compiz depends on:
ii compiz-core 0.6.3~git20071222.061ff159-1 OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii compiz-gnom 0.6.3~git20071222.061ff159-1 OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii compiz-gtk 0.6.3~git20071222.061ff159-1 OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii compiz-plug 0.6.3~git20071222.061ff159-1 OpenGL window and compositing mana
compiz recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Jerry Quinn wrote:
> Yes it did. Cool.
Ok, closing then thanks.
> 1) Turn on decoration and some other minimal window manager abilities
> by default. I'd argue that the lack of decoration and basic window
> management out of the box is a bug
Agreed, we received tons of similar requests, I don't know what the
status of this is.
At some point, I thought your problem would only occur if you had run an
old compiz (say 0.2, which created a pretty small config without the
decoration plugin) and then upgraded to a recent one (which thus missed
the decoration plugin). Did you run a recent compiz first, or did you
ever run an old one?
> 2) Add compizconfig-settings-manager as a suggests for compiz. That
> will give newbies a slightly easier way of setting up the basics and
> playing with effects.
I don't see anything bad about this. I passed the idea to our Compiz guy.
> I noticed a few other problems, such as not honoring the 2x4 desktop I
> was using under metacity (it folded to a 1x4 desktop and threw all my
> windows into the first screen)
Yeah we have some bug reports (#432802) about workspace switcher
"conflicts" between gnome and compiz. Not sure it's easy to fix...
> and not honoring some of my metacity keybindings (perhaps a
> settings-migration tool would help?).
We have a bug report about this too (#454922). If you want to write this
migration tool, feel free to send it :)
Brice
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