[clue] [XWindows] [Gnome] Xsession: Login results in minimal windows

[Shawn Perry]

When it's "ugly", open a terminal and run compiz-check and see if it's happy
with your box.  We can start troubleshooting from there.

You can also try purging your video drivers and then reinstalling them (go
to a tty console and stop gdm before you do this).

What video card, btw?  Are you using FLOSS drivers or proprietary ones?


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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Lorin Ricker <Lorin at rickernet.us> wrote:

> I've posted the following this afternoon on Ubuntu Forums; so far, no
> responses (I'm impatient):
>
> Ubuntu Studio 10.4 (LL/LTS), upgraded from 9.10 on 4-June-11. Recent
> lightning storms have me shutting down frequently to protect
> equipment... Upon reboot, each time I re-login to Gnome (v2.30.2), I end
> up with "undecorated" windows -- that is, each application window lacks
> its title bar, they cannot be moved or resized (tho' app-window menus
> work), and each lands in a fixed position. Only my top-panel works, and
> I cannot get access to workspace control widgets.
>
> I've discovered that to (temporarily until next login/reboot) fix this,
> I can right-click on the workspace background to display the pop-up
> menu, select "Change Desktop Background", go to "Visual Effects" tab,
> observe that the "None" button is selected, and then click on the
> "Normal" button.
>
> This displays a progress box labeled "Searching for available
> drivers...", which ping-pongs a progress bar back and forth for about
> 20-30 seconds. Then (every time), all visible windows get re-displayed
> with the "normal" title bars -- another box pops up with "Do you want to
> keep these settings?" and, of course, I click on the Keep These Settings
> button.
>
> Then all's well -- normal application windows... until my next
> reboot/login cycle.
>
> What's going on here? For me, this is new behavior with my upgrade to
> Ubuntu 10.4/LTS. I've looked in my /home/user directories for something
> to do with Xsession, perhaps a config-file, but have only found
> .xsession-errors (and .xsession-errors.old), with some formidable
> logging in 'em. They don't (yet) help me much...
>
> What should I be looking for? What can I post to help diagnose this?
> What "drivers" is Gnome searching for, and why can't it find them at
> login? Why won't setting visual effects to "normal" stick (be permanent)
> now?
>
> TIA -- Any ideas?  I'm lost on this one.
> Lorin
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