Window Titlebars Are Non-existant

[Karol Dana Morphew]

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 19:51 -0400, J wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 19:42, Karol Dana Morphew <kadm at whidbey.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 17:28 -0600, drew einhorn wrote:
> >> I had a couple boxes with similar problems.
> >> People suggested a few compiz related changes that didn't help.
> >> One box got better when I upgraded the video card.
> >> I didn't have the time or energy to fuss with the other one,
> >> so I retreated to 9.10.  According to lshw - short the video card
> >> I gave up on was:
> >>
> >> /0/100/1/5                  display     RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series]
> >> /0/100/1/5.1                display     Radeon Xpress Series (RS480)
> >>
> >> and, the one that worked was:
> >>
> >> /0/100/2                          bridge      RS480 PCI-X Root Port
> >> /0/100/2/0                        display     G73 [GeForce 7600 GS]
> >>
> >> Was thinking of trying 10.04.1, which is the equivalent of 10.04 plus
> >> all the updates, plus a few more updates.
> >>
> >> Have you applied all the 10.04 updates?
> 
> > Yes, updates are current.  Could this be a "bug"?
> 
> Fixed the top posting...
> 
> I had this same bug on my system (also an nVidia card) but that was
> way back during Beta for Lucid.  It was fixed in a later beta.
> 
> Are you running the open nVidia driver or the proprietary driver?  I
> found that I had to run the non-free driver to get my video to work
> reliably.
> 
> You can run the Hardware Drivers tool from the System/Administration
> menu to see if it's turned on or not.
> 
I'm sorry for the top posting.

Mine doesn't have an nVidia card.  My computer is a Think Pad made in
1999.  I believe the sound card is an 8MB Sound Fusion, by memory, and
is analog stereo duplex.