Hardy Alpha 3 desktop windows won't move or resize or minimize

I have the latest updates from this morning, 2008-Jan-20, running on a MacBookPro and have the same problem.
If I run the metacity --replace & every time I login it works.
I tried creating a new user, but the new user has the same problems.

Installing compiz and attempting to enable effects seems to make the problem go away.
On my macbook I cannot successfully enable the effects.

Latest updates today Jan 23 for Compiz still won't work:

Version: 1:06:99+git20080102-Oubuntu5

still doesn't work. I have to do
metacity --replace &
on every boot.

Jerry :(

Hardy Alpha 4(?) CD Live 20080201 windows are not locked!

Install and then they are locked so I have to do "metacity --replace &" on every boot.

Any way to get the install to function as well as the CD Live?

Thanks, Jerry

You might want to disable desktop effects, since compiz seems to be bugging you. Try System-> Preferences -> Appearance. On the "Visual effects" tab, select "none". Can you move your terminal after a clean boot?

BTW: I personally don't suffer that bug, but that may be because I have a clean config. Do you use emerald?

System, Preferences, Apperance, Visual Effects, None
fixed it.

The screen flashed, keyboard response immediately got much much faster, windows such as Applications, Accessories, Terminal came right up, movable, resizeable, the whole bit.

As installed the Visual Effects did not have any of the None, Normal, Extra choices checked.

Just tried "Normal" and that works too.

"Extra" also works, however when windows are dragged they smear a bit.

On this system the bug is that NONE of the choices were selected as installed by Ubiquity or whoever is supposed to look after such things. Note I've installed Hardy a couple of times and the same "metacity --replace &" was required. Next install I'll check the Visual Effects after install.

Thanks for the fix - and it even persists on rebooting.

I looked at my 3x faster system. As installed, the "None" box is checked.

Thanks, Jerry

@Jerry,

I see you installed Hardy from the CD. I have then a couple of questions.
Do you have a separate /home partition? If so, what kind of eyecandy did
you install under gutsy and feisty? I'm basically trying to find out
whether your issues are related to a config file clash. Oh! and just for
the record: what's your graphics card? I fear I've missed it.

@wilbur

If your macbook has an ATi card, I fear you're out of luck by now. The
proprietary fglrx driver doesn't support AIGLX under xserver 1.4 (hardy's
version) and the free drivers (either radeon or radeonhd) released still
don't support 3D on these cards. If you have an X1600, though, you could
compile radeon from CVS.

jerrylamos escribió:
> System, Preferences, Apperance, Visual Effects, None
> fixed it.
>
> The screen flashed, keyboard response immediately got much much faster,
> windows such as Applications, Accessories, Terminal came right up,
> movable, resizeable, the whole bit.
>
> As installed the Visual Effects did not have any of the None, Normal,
> Extra choices checked.
>
> Just tried "Normal" and that works too.
>
> "Extra" also works, however when windows are dragged they smear a bit.
>
> On this system the bug is that NONE of the choices were selected as
> installed by Ubiquity or whoever is supposed to look after such things.
> Note I've installed Hardy a couple of times and the same "metacity
> --replace &" was required. Next install I'll check the Visual Effects
> after install.
>
> Thanks for the fix - and it even persists on rebooting.
>
> I looked at my 3x faster system. As installed, the "None" box is
> checked.
>
> Thanks, Jerry
>

thanks for reporting! but since this bug has been reported during alpha
and not been touched since i dare to ask if it still is a problem. if it
still is, please file it against a specific package so the relevant
people will have a look at it...

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