Comment 23 for bug 757814

Sorry for resurrecting an old bug.

If anyone is still having this issue, I would suggest the following:

1. Verify that the Window Decoration plugin is enabled in CCSM. If this is disabled, then the window titles seem to disappear. (I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature.)

2. Verify that you have the gtk-window-decorator binary by running `which gtk-window-decorator`. It should output something like "/usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator". It seems like this binary is installed with the compiz-gnome package.

While the compiz-gnome package is a dependency of the compiz metapackage, unfortunately compiz is not marked as a dependency of other commonly installed packages like compizconfig-settings-manager. Due to the way the dependencies are set up, if someone initially ran something like `apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins-extra`, then I think they might get a partially working install (CCSM and various plugins work), but it would be missing the compiz-gnome package. The simple fix would just be to make sure compiz is actually installed: `apt-get install compiz`

Is there a reason why the compiz metapackage isn't just a dependency of each of the optional packages? This seems like it could be confusing for users. Even the installation instructions on the wiki seem to suggest installing 5 different packages: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager#Install_CompizConfig_Settings_Manager