[compiz] gtk-window-decorator - No window borders

[Ioannis Nousias]

Brad Ison wrote:
> Ioannis Nousias wrote:
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>> Brad Ison wrote:
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>>> Ioannis Nousias wrote:
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>>>> is the the "decoration" plugin included in the
>>>> "/apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins" key? I have it
>>>> third after "gconf" and "inotify" plugin.
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>>>> Brad Ison wrote:
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>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have a strange problem with gtk-window-decorator. I've tried 0.3.6 &
>>>>> the latest from git, but with either I don't get any window borders
>>>>> when
>>>>> running gwd. I hope its not something simple I've missed but I've
>>>>> searched around and not found anything. gwd never segfaults or even
>>>>> displays any warnings or anything for that matter. It just doesn't draw
>>>>> the borders. I've tried every combination of gconf settings (setting
>>>>> use_metacity_theme to false etc) and tried changing my metacity theme.
>>>>> It still will not draw any borders. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty with
>>>>> all the latest updates using an ATI x850 with the free r300 driver and
>>>>> Mesa 6.5.2. Compiz itself works alright though I have some weird issues
>>>>> with windows not redrawing, but I expect that is due to using a
>>>>> somewhat
>>>>> experimental video driver. I can't seem to explain why the window
>>>>> borders aren't being drawn though. Any ideas?
>>>>>
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>>> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as of 0.3.6 at least, decoration is
>>> no longer a plugin to be loaded but a library that gwd is linked to,
>>> right?
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>> mind you I'm not a compiz developer, but I know this:
>> The libdecoration is a static library used to design window decorators
>> like gwd. This design decision was made to maximize code reuse for any
>> window decorator developed for compiz.
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>> as for the "decoration" plugin it's still there and enables the
>> functionality for compiz to support window decorators. So please added
>> to you "active_plugins" list :-D
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> No decoration plugin is installed in $prefix/lib/compiz/ just the
> libdecoration libraries are installed into $prefix/lib/. If I do add
> decoration to active_plugins compiz won't find it and will remove it
> from the list. When I first saw this happening I too thought this was
> the problem. So, I went into $prefix/lib/compiz/ and copied the
> libdecoration files installed to $prefix/lib/ into the compiz directory
> as if they were a plugin. But, when compiz goes to load the decoration
> plugin then it complains about not being able to lookup
> getCompPluginInfo in libdecoration.so - I see the getCompPluginInfo
> function in decoration.c though. So at this point I'm not sure what to
> think.
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> As for xorg 7.2, as Gerd mentioned in another reply that using 7.1 may
> be a problem, it hit the Feisty repos today and I am using it. Though I
> don't know if all the relevant proto / driver packages are updated yet.
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the "/usr/lib/compiz/libdecoration.so" is different form the 
"/usr/lib/libdecoration.so.0.0.0"

the first one is the plugin and the second one the shared library for 
gtk-window-decorator

I can see that gtk-window-decorator loads this  (using ldd)

libdecoration.so.0 => /usr/lib/libdecoration.so.0


I don't know why the packages would miss the plugin, but when you 
compile compiz from git check if the decoration gets compiled.

hope that helps