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ben106

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2009-04-25

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Gtk menu disappearing (compiz problem ?)

Hi,
sometimes when I start the Gimp, the menus and tools are not displayed (see the picture). I think this is a gtk problem as it also sometimes happens with the calculator or the gnome menus (after having had the problem with Gimp).

$ uname -a
Linux calypso 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Apr 17 12:46:01 UTC 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

I'm running compiz-fusion and gnome.

This only affects the display, functions are still there (you just don't know on what you're clicking...)

Thanks for the help !

Ben

Last edited by ben106 (2009-05-02 15:41:40)

mrunion

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Re: Gtk menu disappearing (compiz problem ?)

Have you tested a different theme just in case?

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ben106

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 16

Re: Gtk menu disappearing (compiz problem ?)

I just tried another theme, it seems to work a bit better. The highlighting in the menus (when you move the mouse pointer on the menu entries) is still missing sometimes, but if I close the menu and open it again, the highlighting works again.
Maybe I'll try some other themes or wait for an update..!

Thanks for the help

Last edited by ben106 (2009-05-02 15:39:24)

ben106

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2009-04-25

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Re: Gtk menu disappearing (compiz problem ?)

The problem showed up again
I tried many themes, and always the same result.. I changed themes with Emerald, is it right ? Or is there a specific gtk-themes app ?

Last edited by ben106 (2009-05-02 15:38:26)

ben106

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Re: Gtk menu disappearing (compiz problem ?)

It seems to be a problem related to compiz-fusion. When I select the metacity window manager, everything is fine.
Now my problem is that I really prefer working with compiz

EDIT : after some searching, it seems to be a problem related to xorg and the radeon driver. I switched from the fglrx to the radeon driver, and the chance is big that the problem appeared at this point. The investigations continue..

Last edited by ben106 (2009-05-02 17:10:48)

ben106

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Re: Gtk menu disappearing (compiz problem ?)

I was hoping that after some updates everything would work again, but same problems..

Now, i got :

[root@calypso ~]# Xorg -version

This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.

X.Org X Server 1.6.1.901 (1.6.2 RC 1)
Release Date: 2009-5-8
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-ARCH i686 
Current Operating System: Linux calypso 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 20 07:06:02 UTC 2009 i686
Build Date: 28 May 2009  10:40:05PM

and compiz 0.8.2

My xorg.conf :

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Default Layout"
    Screen        "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath    "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load        "xtrap"
    Load        "dbe"
    Load        "extmod"
    Load        "glx"
    Load        "dri"
    Load        "drm"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Keyboard0"
    Driver        "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Mouse0"
    Driver        "evdev"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
    Option        "Phys" "usb-*/input0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "LaptopLCD"
    Option        "VendorName" "DELL"
    Option        "ModelName" "LCD Panel 1680x1050"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
    Option        "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "MobRadX300"
    Boardname    "ATI radeon X300 mobility"
    BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
    Driver        "radeon"
    Option        "AccelMethod" "EXA"
    Option        "Monitor-LVDS" "LaptopLCD"
    Option        "AGPMode" "4"
#    Option        "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
#    VendorName    "ATI"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Screen0"
    Device        "MobRadX300"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Monitor        "LaptopLCD"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth         24
        Modes        "1680x1050"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode        0666
EndSection

I don't want to change back to the proprietary drivers since I would have to downgrade Xorg..

Does someone have (part of) a solution..?