Arch Linux

myflower

Member

Registered: 2010-10-30

Posts: 5

Xfce & Compiz & Emerald - no window decorations

Hi, I'm having a problem with my fresh installation of Archlinux i686. I choosed my favourite desktop environment - Xfce4, but I'm not able to get it working with Emerald and Compiz. When I try "emerald --replace" Emerald won't load and I don't see any error message either. On the other hand when I try running "compiz --replace ccp && emerald --replace &" my window decorations disappear and I see this in my console:

compiz (cube) - Warn: Failed to load slide: freedesktop
compiz (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
fuse: failed to access mountpoint compiz: No such file or directory

The result is the same with or without Window decorations Compiz plugin turned on or off. Only thing that can save my ass is running "xfwm4 --replace" which restores xfwm4 and kills both Emerald an Compiz.

My xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "AIXGL"    "true"
EndSection

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

Section "Module"
    Load  "dri2"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option      "Keyboard0"
    Option      "XkbRules"      "xorg"
    Option      "XkbModel"      "pc104"
    Option      "XkbLayout"     "cz,us"
    Option      "XkbOptions"    "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    #DisplaySize      290   160    # mm
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "AUO"
    ModelName    "122c"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Option         "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"     "true"
      Option         "DRI"             "true"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth  24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
      Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
      Group 0
      Mode 0666
EndSection

Every package in my system is updated to its newest versions (as I said, my system is freshly installed).

And yes, I UTFGed (a lot), but I haven't found any answer that would work for me (partially maybe because most of topics on this matter are more than one year old).

Can anyone help me, please? I'm pretty desperate. Thanks in advance.

flamelab

Member

From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Xfce & Compiz & Emerald - no window decorations

Delete your xorg.conf and try restarting Compiz fusion with fusion-icon.

And, make sure you have enabled "Window decoration" in compiz config system settings.

myflower

Member

Registered: 2010-10-30

Posts: 5

Re: Xfce & Compiz & Emerald - no window decorations

Delete your xorg.conf and try restarting Compiz fusion with fusion-icon.

And, make sure you have enabled "Window decoration" in compiz config system settings.

Didn't help - and to be honest I cant't recall what value I should use in "Command" field for "Window Decorations" in Compiz. At this moment I'm using "emerald --replace".

myflower

Member

Registered: 2010-10-30

Posts: 5

Re: Xfce & Compiz & Emerald - no window decorations

Now I tried running compiz via compiz-manager and I got this output in console:

Checking for Xgl: not present. 
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log 
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:9552 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present. 
Checking for non power of two support: present. 
Checking for Composite extension: present. 
Comparing resolution (1366x768) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present. 
Checking for FBConfig: present. 
Checking for Xgl: not present. 
Starting emerald
/usr/bin/compiz (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
fuse: failed to access mountpoint compiz: No such file or directory

flamelab

Member

From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Xfce & Compiz & Emerald - no window decorations

What's your card ?

And what have you installed for it ?

myflower

Member

Registered: 2010-10-30

Posts: 5

Re: Xfce & Compiz & Emerald - no window decorations

What's your card ?

And what have you installed for it ?

I have ATi Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series and as you can see in xorg.conf I'm using radeon driver.

flamelab

Member

From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Xfce & Compiz & Emerald - no window decorations

What's your card ?

And what have you installed for it ?

I have ATi Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series and as you can see in xorg.conf I'm using radeon driver.

Have you installed these ?

mesa libgl ati-dri xf86-video-ati

?

Did you delete your xorg.conf ?  Have you tried xf86-video-ati-git ?

This one: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79509 ?

If every else fails: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … positories (catalyst driver instead of radeon)

myflower

Member

Registered: 2010-10-30

Posts: 5

Re: Xfce & Compiz & Emerald - no window decorations

If every else fails: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … positories (catalyst driver instead of radeon)

God bless you :-) Everything failed except catalyst drivers. Thank you very much.