Windows have no controls or title bar after upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04

[R. A. Bilonick]

On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 11:47 -0400, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 12:19 +0200, baldyeti wrote:
> > This sounds like the problem I had under the same upgrade path.
> > Someone on the ubuntu support forum correctly suggested I was
> > missing the "gnome-compiz" package; I hope it'll work for you,
> > too...
> > 
> > On 20/06/2010 06:34, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
> > > I tested 10.04 using the livecd before upgrading to 10.04 from 9.10. The
> > > windows looked fine in the live cd. You had borders around the windows
> > > with controls in the upper left for closing and resizing the windows.
> > > You had a title bar that you could grab to move the window, etc.
> > >
> > > After upgrading to 10.04, the default windows are defective. No controls
> > > and no title bar. Plus, the cpu usage now runs at 62% all the time even
> > > when not running any applications.
> > >
> > > If I change the appearance (system|preferences|appearance) and change
> > > "Visual Effects" from "none" to "normal", I get window controls and
> > > title bar, but they are not "embellished" as they should be for 10.04.
> > >
> > > Clearly, the gnome window manager or some such software did not upgrade
> > > correctly. How can I fix this? I installed LXDE and the system runs
> > > normally using LXDE (no 62% cpu usage and the window controls etc. are
> > > what you would expect). I've tried re-installing various gnome
> > > components without any improvement.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> 
> I checked and compiz-gnome is already installed. I'm re-installing it
> and I'm going to see if that helps.
> 
> I've done an extensive Internet search and one other suggestion was to
> run:
> 
> > metacity --replace
> 
> But that removes the controls that I get after changing from "none" to
> "normal" in Visual Effects.
> 
> There were other similar suggestions for other window managers but none
> have worked. It may be connected with the Intel video chips in this
> laptop. There were some hints of a conflict between GXL (or GLX) which
> has something to do with the bit-maps that are used to overlay the
> simple buttons.
> 
> 
Re-installing compiz-gnome had no effect - the bit mapped buttons do not
display.