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.<div><br></div><div>You can also try purging your video drivers and then reinstalling them (go to a tty console and stop gdm before you do this).</div>
<div><br></div><div>What video card, btw? Are you using FLOSS drivers or proprietary ones?<br clear="all"><br><br>Shawn T Perry<br>Red Mop Computing Services<br>email: <a href="mailto:shawn@redmop.com" target="_blank">shawn@redmop.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Lorin Ricker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lorin@rickernet.us">Lorin@rickernet.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I've posted the following this afternoon on Ubuntu Forums; so far, no<br>
responses (I'm impatient):<br>
<br>
Ubuntu Studio 10.4 (LL/LTS), upgraded from 9.10 on 4-June-11. Recent<br>
lightning storms have me shutting down frequently to protect<br>
equipment... Upon reboot, each time I re-login to Gnome (v2.30.2), I end<br>
up with "undecorated" windows -- that is, each application window lacks<br>
its title bar, they cannot be moved or resized (tho' app-window menus<br>
work), and each lands in a fixed position. Only my top-panel works, and<br>
I cannot get access to workspace control widgets.<br>
<br>
I've discovered that to (temporarily until next login/reboot) fix this,<br>
I can right-click on the workspace background to display the pop-up<br>
menu, select "Change Desktop Background", go to "Visual Effects" tab,<br>
observe that the "None" button is selected, and then click on the<br>
"Normal" button.<br>
<br>
This displays a progress box labeled "Searching for available<br>
drivers...", which ping-pongs a progress bar back and forth for about<br>
20-30 seconds. Then (every time), all visible windows get re-displayed<br>
with the "normal" title bars -- another box pops up with "Do you want to<br>
keep these settings?" and, of course, I click on the Keep These Settings<br>
button.<br>
<br>
Then all's well -- normal application windows... until my next<br>
reboot/login cycle.<br>
<br>
What's going on here? For me, this is new behavior with my upgrade to<br>
Ubuntu 10.4/LTS. I've looked in my /home/user directories for something<br>
to do with Xsession, perhaps a config-file, but have only found<br>
.xsession-errors (and .xsession-errors.old), with some formidable<br>
logging in 'em. They don't (yet) help me much...<br>
<br>
What should I be looking for? What can I post to help diagnose this?<br>
What "drivers" is Gnome searching for, and why can't it find them at<br>
login? Why won't setting visual effects to "normal" stick (be permanent)<br>
now?<br>
<br>
TIA -- Any ideas? I'm lost on this one.<br>
Lorin<br>
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