Windows displayed incorrectly? (no functional compiz window manager)

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Mon May 14 00:51:15 UTC 2007


David Nielsen wrote:
> søn, 13 05 2007 kl. 13:52 -0700, skrev Knute Johnson:
>> I've been playing with F7 and have managed to mess up my desktop 
>> somehow.  Any windows that I open have no title bar and are in the 
>> upper left corner of the screen over the toolbar.  I've tried 
>> everything I can think of to fix it.  I've reloaded gdm, I've tried 
>> resetting display sizes, and I removed and replaced the toolbar.  If 
>> I start the computer as root it works fine, it is just my user that 
>> is messed up.  If I use kde or xfce the problem is the same.  Any 
>> ideas what I've messed up?
> 
> I'm seeing the same thing with Compiz enabled curently, it's odd since
> for the most part Compiz has behaved really well all during the F7
> cycle. Do we have a bug on this?
> 
> - David
> 

The symptom sounds like the window manager is not functional. You might 
try metacity --replace and file a bug regarding compiz malfunctioning.

Jim

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