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

[Tony Pursell]

On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 13:42 -0400, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 12:18 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:50:45 -0400
> > "R. A. Bilonick" <rab at consolidated.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Re-installing compiz-gnome had no effect - the bit mapped buttons do
> > > not display.
> > 
> > Do you have a window decorator installed?  I use Emerald, although I
> > understand it is on its way out.  The GTK decorator is good enough.
> > Control it through the Compiz Fusion icon (install it, too)>right
> > click.
> > 
> > Cybe R. Wizard
> > -- 
> > When Windows are opened the bugs come in.
> > 	Winduhs
> > 
> 
> I think it is trying to use the gtk decorator. I installed emerald and
> the fusion thing, but do not understand how to access it - I don't see
> it any where.
> 
> I tried running 10.04 from the livecd before upgrading. Everything
> worked fine, the window decorations showed up. So I'm not sure what the
> problem is.
> 

This is all related to this bug

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

and the bugs shown as duplicates of it.  

However the effect seems to be different for different people.  I cured
the lack of window 'decoration' by simply re-naming ~/.compiz to
~/.compiz.old and ~/.config/gnome.session to ~/.config/gnome.session.old
and restarting. But I don't use compiz at all and I know this is not a
fix for everyone with this problem. 

Like you I did not have any problems with a live USB.  After upgrade, I
couldn't boot at all, so I did a re-install of Lucid keeping my home
folder.

Tony 


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