[SOLVED] dialog boxes dont work with desktop effects

[Marcus Derekus]

Did you try enabling compiz with the compiz-switch application i attached.

Also, if you disable EVERY setting with compizconfig you might not see a difference anyway.

Try using compiz-switch and see what happens.

[duanedesign]

I have been using the Compiz Fusion Icon to switch between Compiz AND Metacity.
I installed the Compiz switch and it doesnt appear to be doing anyhting.

[eternalnewbee]

Hi there.
Sorry for the intrusion, but have you tried disabling visual effects, and then pressing ALT-F2, and entering

compiz --replace

Btw. I use Emerald, and find it very stable. If you want to give it a try, just install it from Synaptic Package Manager, and after installation is completed, press ALT-F2 and enter

emerald --replace

Hope this helps. Good luck.

[duanedesign]

I went back to the nvidia glx 177. There were way to many issues with the 173.

with the 177 installed I got everything back working except for the original issue of the unresponsive dialog boxes that dont allow me to navigate folders.

I have tried emerald and it didnt fix the problem.

goimg to try the above suggestion, will update.

[update]
Running compiz --replace from Alt+ F2 didnt solve it. When I run Compiz --replace from the Terminal I get.

duanedesign@duanedesign-laptop:~$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
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 (8192): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format


I am going to post a picture to better illustrate this hard to describe problem.

[update]

the places in red are th parts of the dialog box that dont work. I can close the window save but I can not edit the name or choose a folder.




[Update]
It is weird inkscape, Gimp, and Amarok work fine.

Evolution, Firefox, Rhythmbox, dont work. Is there something these programs use that the others do not?

[eternalnewbee]

Could you post a larger screenshot?

[eternalnewbee]

Evolution, Firefox, Rhythmbox, dont work. Is there something these programs use that the others do not?

It must be something with the graphic card configuration.

[duanedesign]

Could you post a larger screenshot?

the areas highlighted in red are the areas that are completely unresponsive. Since other things in the window work I am wondering if the window is just not redrawing.

[eternalnewbee]

There you are.
One last thing I can think of is disabling your graphic card, reboot, and enabling it again, although no guarantees that it'll work...

[Marcus Derekus]

HMMM....this is confusing, maybe it is an input problem woth the mouse or keyboard or somthing (although it's probably graphics, i will research some more).

BTW when you click on the compiz switch icon all it will look like it did is make your screen blink (no notification of it being on of off or anything). But it actually switches compiz on/off.

Try turning compiz off the usual way of disabling graphics effects to the system>preferences>appearence menu. Then enable with compiz-switch.

(I mainly gave it to you to make testing quicker so you could easily turn it on and off quickly).

I'll be back later. Gotta have a break on my computer.

[duanedesign]

HMMM....this is confusing, maybe it is an input problem woth the mouse or keyboard or somthing (although it's probably graphics, i will research some more).

BTW when you click on the compiz switch icon all it will look like it did is make your screen blink (no notification of it being on of off or anything). But it actually switches compiz on/off.

Try turning compiz off the usual way of disabling graphics effects to the system>preferences>appearence menu. Then enable with compiz-switch.

(I mainly gave it to you to make testing quicker so you could easily turn it on and off quickly).

I'll be back later. Gotta have a break on my computer.

when I switched back to the 177 I was able to tell that the switch was working. When I hAd the 173 driver installed it was hard to tell what was going on.

Ha, ha yeah you gotta take a break every now and then