{"id":185,"date":"2007-09-23T13:29:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/23\/no-window-decorators-in-compiz-in-ubuntu-gutsy\/"},"modified":"2010-08-28T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T16:33:00","slug":"no-window-decorators-in-compiz-in-ubuntu-gutsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/23\/no-window-decorators-in-compiz-in-ubuntu-gutsy\/","title":{"rendered":"No window decorators in Compiz in Ubuntu Gutsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just upgraded an Ubuntu machine from Ubuntu Dapper to Gutsy.  For starters, don't do this. The supported path is D -&gt; E -&gt; F -&gt; G, but I'm hax0r, so I wanted to do it in one step. It's possible, but took a lot more effort than it was worth.<\/p>\n<p>Gutsy has Compiz as default, but the upgrade left me with no window decoration (borders, title bar, etc). I did what I thought was deleting my entire GNOME prefs\/gconf tree, but still didn't get a fix. I did find the answer eventually: re-enable the decorator plugin.<\/p>\n<p>You can do this, and enable a good bunch more also, like so:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\ngconftool --set \/apps\/compiz\/general\/allscreens\/options\/active_plugins \\\r\n--type list --list-type string \\\r\n'[gconf,png,svg,decoration,wobbly,fade,minimize,cube,rotate,zoom,scale,move,place,switcher,screenshot,resize]'\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This hard to find answer was bought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/bgoglin.livejournal.com\/11253.html\">Brice Goglin's blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just upgraded an Ubuntu machine from Ubuntu Dapper to Gutsy. For starters, don't do this. The supported path is D -&gt; E -&gt; F -&gt; G, but I'm hax0r, so I wanted to do it in one step. It's possible, but took a lot more effort than it was worth. Gutsy has Compiz as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}