ubuntu, compiz suddenly funky

ok so I haven't booted to Ubuntu in about a month...and I did and compiz suddenly won;t load right...it was working fine before. Im doing it by selecting XGL at log in as the session then in terminal going
compiz -start

now it gives me an error saying plugin couldn;t be loaded....and I lose my window borders...although the compiz effects seem to work. I tried reinstalling the plugin's for compiz in synaptic but nothing different....anyone know what I can do?

You can start by giving exact quote of the error messages

exact error is:

mike@Ubuntu:~$ compiz -start
XGL Present
compiz: Couldn't load plugin '-start'

I had my compiz go funky and was advised to uninstall it and use Beryl the compiz fork which resolved all my issues

http://www.beryl-project.org

ok so I did a Beryl install....it does the same thing...I start Beryl and I lose all window borders...even if I go into emerald and select different themes. Here is the Error I get when I start Beryl, oh this is running in XGL.

mike@Ubuntu:~$ beryl
XGL Present
beryl: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
beryl: Failed to manage screen: 0
beryl: No manageable screens found on display localhost:1.0


any ideas?...IM gonna try reinstalling XGL but since that didn't work with compiz I have low hopes.

blueswitch said:

...beryl: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing...

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That looks like the problem there. If I remember correctly that's a setting you need to enable in the xorg.conf file.
Edit: This is written for gentoo but you should be able to roughly follow it, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL/Troubleshooting#GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap_is_missing

Same thing happened to me. All i did was close the icon up in the top right and my borders came back.

Just run

berylmanager

in the sessions.