Windows decorations lost. Have to start gnome-wm manually.

[NoOp]

On 12/31/2009 06:50 AM, David Harel wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Seems I am onto a huge bug.
> Editing the main menus can cause total malfunction of desktop resulting 
> in windows decorations and frame loss and therefore inability to move 
> windows around.
> Not getting anyone to direct me to proper documentation, I had to 
> perform some trial on error searches and eventually I found the 
> directory ~/.local/share/applications where *.desktop files reside as a 
> result of editing the main menu.
> 3 files I removed from that directory saved the day.
> 1. 'gnome-wm.desktop' - when removed, windows decorations returned.
> 2. 'nautilus.desktop' - when removed, desktop icons returned.
> 3. 'firefox.desktop' - a small issue, the firefox icon got removed from 
> the top panel. removing this file returned the icon.
> 
> My machine is a Fujitsu/Siemens laptop running Ubuntu 9.10
> 
> Any idea if this is a bug ?

I've run across this in the past (using old nVidia card & compiz) &
found that is I add 'Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"' to the xorg.conf
the problem goes away. Sample of mine:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "1280x1024 +0+0"
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection

Also see:
<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=AddARGBGLXVisuals&field.actions.search=Search>
<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=AddARGBGLXVisuals+%2Bdecoration&field.actions.search=Search>