Bug#476282: Even a fresh install exhibits this behaviour
I've just been looking through my /var/log/aptitude(.?.gz) files and
it looks to me that I first installed compiz at this version (compiz
0.6.3~git20080115.0ea58487-1) and upgraded to 0.7.6-3 then to -5,
so I've not at any point upgraded from an earlier version, and I still
had what I would consider a buggy experience of not having the
decoration module enabled by default. This machine's only recently
been installed from scratch (around the middle of june) so it really
doesn't look to me like the issue has to do with pre-existing settings.
Perhaps installing 0.7.x on a clean system would not exhibit have the
no-decorations problem (I've not tested that case), but at the least it
would seem a good idea to have some kind of warning triggered when
starting compiz. Something along the lines of the following might work:
You don't have the decoration module enabled, this may leave you with
an unusable desktop with no window borders etc. To view/set the list of
enabled modules, use
gconftool --get /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins
and
gconftool --set /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins '[list,of,modules,to,enable]'
or a graphical tool such as ccsm
Does that sound fair?
Certainly, I would expect the default to include the decoration module
in the case that there are no pre-existing settings specifically excluding it.
HTH
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
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