Re: Window Borders Disappear

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:06:59PM -0600, Jack Schneider <puck@volunteerwireless.net> was heard to say:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:26 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:42:09PM +0000, Jack Schneider wrote:
> > > I have lost my Desktop window borders. I am using Debian "lenny"
> > > updated. Problem occurred after an abortedattempt to install Compiz..
> > > I get the following error from theSystem>preferences>windows menu.. "
> > > Cannot start the preferences application for your window
> > > manager.Window manager "unknown" has not registered a configuration
> > > tool..
> > >
> > > Any help would be great... J ack
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Why don't you try aptitude reinstall metacity? That may work.
>
> Thanks, for the reply... I did the # aptitude reinstall metacity thing
> and regretably no change...
>
> It really makes it painfull to have all windows in upper left corner
> with no size or position control... What could be plan b???

  If you can get access to the windows themselves: does running metacity from a terminal help? If that complains that another window manager is running, try metacity --replace. I think you have to save the Gnome session after that if it works, but I don't remember what the Gnome voodoo for saving a session is.

  Daniel

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