How to make Metacity borders blurry w/ Compiz

Setting Blur Windows in CompizConfig Settings Manager is easy. However, it does not blur the window borders which can look very wrong like this:

However, there is a way to make Metacity blurry like the rest of the window.
Here is what you need to do:

1) Go to the Blur Windows settings in the CompizConfig Settings Manager.
- Set which windows you want this to apply to in the "Alpha blur windows" section. I just copy/pasted all the windows from the "Focus blur windows" box. I then disabled Focus blur and enabled Alpha blur. Tweak other settings to your liking.

2) Run gconf-editor (either from terminal or from app launcher).
- Navigate to /apps/gwd/blur_type and set it either "titlebar" or "all". From what I understand, either only the titlebar will be blurred, or all the window borders.

Now the window borders should be nicely blurry, like this:



Source: UbuntuForums