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Missing title bar

Asked by theqool

I currently have Ubuntu 7.04

I had seen a similar question posed in Question #9702, but because it was a list of five questions, it wasn't really answered. I had recently tried the desktop effects, then installed beryl. However, now the title bar in every application has disappeared, and when I open up the terminal, all I get is a giant white box that won't display anything I type. It would be nice if someone knows how to bring back the title bars, but I think that I may have to end up reinstalling Ubuntu. I also have installed Automatix, so I'm not sure if that might be what the problem is. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Jesus Gamio (jgamio) said : 		#1

Did you install the themes ?

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Brandon (brandon-steed) said : 		#2

I've run into this as well. Have you tried turning off ALL desktop effects? I've found that it's about the only way to get the title bar back after that. I think they might use an overlay for a 3D effect on the title bar, causing a problem on some video cards.

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theqool (alexayala-ut) said : 		#3

The themes for emerald? Yes.

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Alli (alzeih) said : 		#4

silly question maybe, but is emerald itself installed and you have chosen a theme?

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theqool (alexayala-ut) said : 		#5

Thank you for those who tried to help. I just gave up and reinstalled Ubuntu and everything I had previously, but now everything works fine.

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PhilCraggs (ubuntu-philcraggs) said : 		#6

I had the same problem. A missing title bar means that you can't easily minimize, maximise, close or even move an applications window.

The problem is with desktop settings. I had installed Compiz Desktop and had enabled a few settings. Then, after a reboot, no title bars. The settings also prevented me from switching workspace. After disabling all the effects everything started to work (without a reboot). Now it's a case of enabling one, reboot, check, enable another one, reboot, check, enab.........

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Chris (ckav8r) said : 		#7

I had the same problem. I have only gone into Preferences/ Appearance/ Visual Effects/ and reset from none to normal to extra then back to none. Lost all capabilities for minimize maximize and close. Any other ideas?
9.04 netbook remix firefox 3.0.15

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#8

Alright so go to System/Administration/Hardware Drivers to check if you
have any restricted drivers

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Vikram Dhillon

On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 04:37 +0000, Chris wrote:
> Question #12659 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/12659
>
> Chris posted a new comment:
> I had the same problem. I have only gone into Preferences/ Appearance/ Visual Effects/ and reset from none to normal to extra then back to none. Lost all capabilities for minimize maximize and close. Any other ideas?
> 9.04 netbook remix firefox 3.0.15
>