Michael Holloway wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:25 +0000, Ian Pascoe wrote: >> Andy, which desktop you using? >> >> There appears to be a couple of known problems with Compis and title bar >> locking off screen, eithre from launch or after being accidentally moved >> there and not being able to drag it back. >> >> E > > I think more importantly, what video card are you using - let me guess, > NVidia? There has been a problem with this for ages, since the old > compiz, through beryl, and now into Compiz-Fusion (Which ubuntu calls > Advanced Desktop Effects) > > There have been many a work-around in the past,some which still work, > some dont. > > There general consensus seems to be to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file, find the device sections add add the two "AddRGb...."'s as > follows: > > // > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "nvidia" > Busid "PCI:1:0:0" > Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True" > Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" > EndSection > // > > I give that about a 10% chance of working (sorry)... however, and this is the > part that i throw out the the community... in beryl-manager > there was an option to set something to "copy". Can't remember what > it was, but it worked. Does anyone know what i'm talking about,or if > there is a similar option somewhere in compiz? > >
Actually it's an ATI Radeon card. I may try the edit to 'xorg.conf' but for now I'll just remember the Alt-Click trick (I didn't know of that one). Andy Jenkins. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
