Fix for strange white borders with Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu
I’ve just installed Compiz Fusion on my 3-year old ASUS laptop which is running Ubuntu Feisty. I’m quite pleased at how stable it is. I tried Beryl a few months ago and it was not usable at all on the same hardware.
I did run into one problem, though and I couldn’t find any solution to it on either the Ubuntu Forums or anywhere else on the net. My top Gnome panel had a strange white bar under it and all my context menus had white borders. Maybe my google-fu wasn’t very good yesterday, but the only solution that I managed to find after about an hour was this on a Gentoo forum:
This is a known issue. Go to ccsm->Window Decorations and add the string !dock to the value Shadow Windows. I had to enter 2 !dock. First disabled shadows of the context menus and the tool tips, the second stops shadows for the gnome-panel.
I’m just putting this here in case it helps someone with a similar problem.
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thanks,
I just ran into that.
Excellent! I’m glad it helped someone; it took me a long time to find it.
Helped me, too. Thx.
Ha, finally googled strange white borders and found this fix. Thanks!
In case you use the graphical settings thingy, you can also fix it by going to “window decoration” and switch the value from “any” (default) to “windows”. Like that only the actual windows will be shadowed and the white borders disappear.
But thanks a lot, Kerneljack, I would not have found it, if it wasn’t for this post.
Thanks for the fix to both kerneljack and Ole
Thanks! Finally the borders are gone
Thanks too