[ubuntu-in] Problem with Firefox view (solved)

[Vishal Rao]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjaybhangar at gmail.com> wrote:
> hey - so i have this problem every time my machine starts - all the windows
> don't have their top-bars. right now I just get around it by doing "metacity
> --replace &" at the terminal and it switches to using metacity as the window
> manager and all is okay. But have still not figured out why the top-bars
> disappear in the first place. I think it had something to do with messing
> with Compiz. I tried disabling compiz, re-installing compiz, etc. but to no
> avail. If anyone has any ideas / any debugging I can do, would be great.
> Although, this is on 8.04 and I probably should just upgrade anyways.
> Anyways - was just good to know someone else faced a similar problem.

What graphics hardware and driver are you using? Try switching the
driver to a newer release?
I've seen multiple nvidia versions available in restricted driver
manager (jockey) which you can select...