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pete-the-meat

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2008-08-14

Posts: 26

Firefox has no title-bar/border in emerald & compiz fusion [SOLVED]

I am running compiz-fusion in gnome with emerald as the window decorator and everything is working fine apart from firefox. When it starts up it has no title-bar or window border and appears to be in full screen mode (since nothing else is visible) but actually isn't. I have absolutely no experience working with window managers and am clueless as to what the problem could be.

Can anyone help me?

Many thanks

Last edited by pete-the-meat (2008-10-19 13:45:15)

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OneEyedPimp

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Registered: 2008-05-02

Posts: 103

Re: Firefox has no title-bar/border in emerald & compiz fusion [SOLVED]

What happens when you press F11? Does that make it go full screen?

Dieter@be

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Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: Firefox has no title-bar/border in emerald & compiz fusion [SOLVED]

This is a known problem (also happens with thunderbird).  If you google around, you'll see many people complaining.  One workaround is to press f11 twice (so it goes fullscreen and back), that usually fixes it.

Here are also some tips: http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthre … 098&page=2

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pete-the-meat

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2008-08-14

Posts: 26

Re: Firefox has no title-bar/border in emerald & compiz fusion [SOLVED]

Thanks - that information was helpfull...

This hotfix worked for me: Activate the Compiz-Fusion 'PUT' tool and check 'Avoid Offscreen' - Firefox now opens with decoration as normal.

Thanks for your help, and good luck to anyone else with this issue

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erumer

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From: Tirano (SO) Italy

Registered: 2008-12-19

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Re: Firefox has no title-bar/border in emerald & compiz fusion [SOLVED]

I've also found myself facing the same behaviour of the firefox window; I got bored of the F11 x2 workaround, and tried to start firefox from the terminal, to see if there were any strange error message.

Magically, it started with the correct size, not covering anything it should not.
And now it always open correctly from the usual launcher.

Maybe it can be another way to try... for me it worked.