[ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

[Mike Holstein]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:27 AM, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:

> When I saw compositing, I just mean the window decorations, title bar, etc.
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what i meant by "compositing" was, compositing.. is it enabled?


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> Hardware is powerful enough and it all worked previously. This is not a
> hardware problem. It works with logging in as a Guest. It is no doubt a
> problem with my user account.
>
>
that typically  does add up.. why dont you simply try removing/renaming
your users config, or, create a new user, and see if the issue is in your
users config..

cheers..



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> David K
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> On 09/09/15 18:51, Mike Holstein wrote:
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> On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, David King < <linuxman at avoura.com>
> linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
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>> I am using Ubuntu Studio 14.04, and it has been kept up to date, with
>> default XFCE desktop. It was working well yesterday, but today when logging
>> in, there are serious problems, such as no title bars or other window
>> decorations, no programs showing on the panel. Then all windows disappear
>> along with the panel, leaving me just the desktop and its icons.
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>> I can right click to get a menu, and tried going to the system settings,
>> but clicking on Window Manager did nothing.
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>> I can still run Linux Mint on the same PC (which I am doing now to use
>> Thunderbird) but my Ubuntu Studio is broken.
>>
>> How can I fix this? What configuration needs to be checked or changed?
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>> David K
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> Since you mentioned compositing. Are you using compositing? If so, does
> your hardware support compositing in Linux?
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