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

[R. A. Bilonick]

On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:56 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
> 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 
> 
> 
Thanks for the info. First, I created a new user account and then logged
into it. The window controls in the new account have the decorations. So
I logged back into my main account and renamed as you suggested. I
logged out and then back in but still no decoration.  The files (or
directories) were not re-created. I'm going to try re-booting.