XGL - no window decorations, other trouble

briancurtin · 2006-04-29 18:38:49

im jumping into XGL right now and have the problem of there being no window decorations on anything. i dont have title bars, or buttons to close/minimize windows. everything is showing up a bit fuzzy and i tried taking a screenshot but it basically looks like an old TV with no reception when it comes in.

as my user, nothing works. if i click on something, nothing happens. as root logged into gnome, i can use applications but they show up all skewed and i cant read most of whats going on in some applications. i havent read about this happening, but does anyone know of a fix?

im using gnome, nvidia drivers, and can tell you anything else you need. ive follow the wiki's steps and im not sure what may have went wrong. any help is greatly appreciated, i owe you

nozey · 2006-04-29 22:31:16

Im having the same problem. Using nvidia fx5200 and gnome.

I followed these steps: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xgl , using shadowhand's repo.

I tried to fix my problem following this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xgl … on_Missing . But it didint worked.

Any sugestions?

iphitus · 2006-04-30 00:18:43

make sure you do not have

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

set. that stuffed up my window borders.

nozey · 2006-04-30 01:21:26

$ echo $XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS
1

As u can see, it was "1". So i did:

$ export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=0
$ startxgl 1 gnome nvidia

But i still *dont* have window decorations. At least gnome is starting faster (:

shbang · 2006-04-30 02:07:22

I did not have window decorations until I reduced my screen resolution from 1920x1200 to 1680x1050. The description of the other issues you are experiencing are different than the problems I had.

briancurtin · 2006-04-30 02:47:18

nozey wrote:

$ echo $XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS
1
As u can see, it was "1". So i did:
$ export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=0
$ startxgl 1 gnome nvidia
But i still *dont* have window decorations. At least gnome is starting faster (:

when i echoed that XLIB line, i just got a blank line, not a 1 or 0. im not sure if thats good or if i explicitly want a 0.

nozey · 2006-04-30 02:50:09

Well ... i got it working.

The first thind i did was unset the XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS variable. It doesnt matter if its setted to "1" or "0". You have to unset it! U cant export the variable.

Just check ur .bashrc, .bash_profile, or /etc/profile and comment the "export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=something" line.

Do:

$ echo $XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS

And if u get no answer(read: a blank line), then its ok. (:

The other thing i had to do was change my default depth to 24 in xorg.conf. I was using 16, but i was having some problems. 24 works great (:

iphitus · 2006-04-30 03:15:25

to unset it, just do 'unset XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS'

briancurtin · 2006-04-30 07:35:27

awesome, i got it to work now. thanks a lot guys!
thanks for the hint on changing to 24 on the default depth in xorg

briancurtin · 2006-04-30 07:46:41

should i be able to see the Window Border tab in Theme > Theme Details with XGL? its not there.
also one more side question: the gnome splash screen showed Metacity as starting up. im pretty sure that shouldnt be happenning, right?

thanks for the help on this everyone

tyme · 2006-04-30 09:21:29

briancurtin wrote:

should i be able to see the Window Border tab in Theme > Theme Details with XGL? its not there.

It won't show up because you aren't running metacity. gnome-window-decorator isn't themeable at this time.

also one more side question: the gnome splash screen showed Metacity as starting up. im pretty sure that shouldnt be happenning, right?

this is normal behaviour. gnome still starts metacity, but gnome-window-decorator replaces it (effectively killing the metacity process).

briancurtin · 2006-04-30 17:20:57

alright thats what i was thinking on the second point. i figured it would get shot down before it could show up on that splash screen, but GWD replaces it anyways. thanks for clearing that up man.

Mr Green · 2006-05-07 14:09:20

I still that XLIB thing ... when I run startglx ...

No decs & a trailing mess after mouse yuk!

Cube works ok (

Will admit I have not messed around with setting up kdm etc yet..... wondered if that made any diffence?

/me goes back to playing Quake4

nozey · 2006-05-07 16:11:54

Did u changed ur default depth in xorg.conf to 24?

Mr Green · 2006-05-07 16:54:02

DefaultColorDepth 24 yup!

briancurtin · 2006-07-08 01:43:35

ok im havent been using XGL for like 2 months, but today after pacman -Syu'ing, my window decorations went away and nothing in this thread worked, nor did a good old reboot.

any ideas? i'm in XFCE right now, but perfer gnome and would like to try and get those window decorations back so i can use it. i wanted XGL back but no one knew the answer to my thread and i got sick of bumping it and ran out of ideas.

Mr Green · 2006-07-08 04:52:34

Sorry I stopped using XGL a while back, maybe check your settings in gconf-editor... I forget exectly where (options I think!)

Xgl

HTH

briancurtin · 2006-07-08 14:53:01

i meant to say that im not using XGL either. i just re-used this thread i created since it contains the same problem, only that this time i am using Gnome/Metacity and no XGL...yet my window decorations are still gone.

Mr Green · 2006-07-08 15:17:34

Weird.... not gone after last update maybe?

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