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Missing Buttons?

Asked by Alicia Collins

There is no "close", "minimize", nor "fullscreen" buttons in the top left corner of any window that I open. How do I fix it?

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Nathan Heafner (nathan1465-5) said : 		#1

Hello Alicia Collins
can you please open terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T then copy and paste the command listed below in and press enter

lsb_release -a && uname -a && sudo lshw

please post the output of those commands here for review.

then please make sure you are up to date on your updates by running in terminal
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

then please run the command
compiz --replace

does this resolve your issues?

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Alicia Collins (aliciaeve89) said : 		#2

this is what it said

shafferspc@shafferspc-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:~$

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Nathan Heafner (nathan1465-5) said : 		#3

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

right. when you open terminal you will get a prompt like you gave, now please copy and paste these commands into terminal to run

lsb_release -a && uname -a && sudo lshw
hit enter to run the commands, post the output here for review

then try
compiz --replace

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