[ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

[Toni Sissala]

On 10.9.2015 12:27, David King wrote:
> When I saw compositing, I just mean the window decorations, title bar, 
> etc.
>
> Hardware is powerful enough and it all worked previously. This is not 
> a hardware problem. It works with logging in as a Guest. It is no 
> doubt a problem with my user account.
>

I have had similar problems in xfce with missing window decorations and 
title bars. My problem was a corrupted session which started at login. 
Solution was quite simple:

$ sudo rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions/*
$ sudo reboot


Toni

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> David K
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> On 09/09/15 18:51, Mike Holstein wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, David King <linuxman at avoura.com 
>> <mailto:linuxman at avoura.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I am using Ubuntu Studio 14.04, and it has been kept up to date,
>>     with default XFCE desktop. It was working well yesterday, but
>>     today when logging in, there are serious problems, such as no
>>     title bars or other window decorations, no programs showing on the
>>     panel. Then all windows disappear along with the panel, leaving me
>>     just the desktop and its icons.
>>
>>     I can right click to get a menu, and tried going to the system
>>     settings, but clicking on Window Manager did nothing.
>>
>>     I can still run Linux Mint on the same PC (which I am doing now to
>>     use Thunderbird) but my Ubuntu Studio is broken.
>>
>>     How can I fix this? What configuration needs to be checked or 
>> changed?
>>
>>
>>
>>     David K
>>
>>
>> Since you mentioned compositing. Are you using compositing? If so, 
>> does your hardware support compositing in Linux?
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> MH
>>
>> likethecow.com <http://likethecow.com>
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