Window Titlebars Are Non-existant

[Tony Pursell]

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 15:08 -0700, Karol Dana Morphew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I updated from 8.04 to 10.04 yesterday.  The programs I open do not have
> titlebars nor the buttons to maximize, minimize, and close their
> windows.  I do not get the icon for and am unable to drag and resize the
> windows.  I installed FVWM in a terminal and rebooted, but this did not
> help.  What might I try?
> 
> Dana
> 
> 

Hi Dana

This is related to this bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/467668

You are missing what is called 'window decoration'.

The fix that worked for me was to use a terminal (are you OK with that?)
and enter the following

mv ~/.compiz ~/.compiz-backup

mv ~/.config/gnome-session ~/.config/gnome-session-backup

then reboot.

If that does not work, you may find some other workarounds in the
discussion of that bug

Tony

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