Workaround for Pink Shadows with Compiz

Which of the NVIDIA drivers are you using?
Neither the 169.x nor the beta 173.x driver has the file
/usr/lib/nvidia/libwfb.so.xserver-xorg-core
as a matter of fact, (at least for the beta drivers) /usr/lib/nvidia/ doesn’t even exist…

I suspect the suspect the *fix* is in…

It’s been a bug for a very long time (on Hardy at least). I’ve had shadows turned off for months.

Hi, yes this fixes the annoying glow issue, but you may have to remove the original .so file first, otherwise linking will just tell you the file already exists.

sudo mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so.bak

dreadlord_chris:
I’m using nvidia-glx-new 169.12 from the Ubuntu 8.04 repositories.

Thanks a lot !! This fixed the problem finally…

Hi,

Thanks for the tip, I had the same issue…

I have a question about another problem that has been bugging me for days now:

With Compiz & Gnome, sometimes when I click on a window in the task bar (to display it), it goes half away on another desktop, so it’s partly on each, but it seems the coordinates are somehow wrong, for example if I click on the maximize button for that window, it doesn’t take the full screen and If I click somewhere in it, it doesn’t do it at the correct position… And once it happens, if I click on any other window in the task bar, it gets wrong too. Sometimes the windows disappear completely (even though the process is still running).

The only ways I have to “fix” temporarily the problem is to:
1) close all windows, then it doesn’t do it anymore
2) restart X…

I know my explanation is not quite clear, sorry, but if you had this already, I think you’ll see what I mean.

I tried looking for known bugs but didn’t find any that matched my problem and I’m not too sure where it can come from (gnome, compiz, emerald, ubuntu?).

Thanks in advance if you find anything that can help me ;))

Have a nice day.

Thanks mate, I love you for this.

I did not even have pink shadows but no shadows at all! (using restricted drivers on fresh install with 8800GTS)

The drivers from the nvidia web site worked fine but you have to reinstall them when the kernel changes (fun during the alpha period)

Works great now!

This trick fixed the pink shadows problem.

It also fixed the corrupted transparent window decorations. I temporarily solved that problem by setting metacity_theme_active_opacity to 1 in the GNOME configuration editor. Now, I can make them transparent again.

Thanks Tom!