Can not move or resize windows in GNOME

[Martin Gustafsson]

As soon as a program is started in GNOME, the new window puts itself on top of the panel in the upper left corner and hide the Applications menu for example. No window decorations are shown and it is impossible to move or resize the window.

GNOME behaves like this when logging in as the second user and also for every other newly created user accounts , but not for the first user.

[Martin Gustafsson (martin-gustafsson)]

Forgot to mention that I am using Ubuntu 8.04 on i386.

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Thanks for your bug submission. It looks like you lost your gnome window manager. Could be related to the second user not being able to activate the window manager because of a permissions problem.

What happens when the second user does this in a terminal:

>gnome-wm

This will execute gnome window manager for that user. This is a work around. It should simply work when the second user logs in.

Marking as Confirmed.

[Martin Gustafsson (martin-gustafsson)]

>gnome-wm
exec: 140: /usr/bin/compiz: not found

It does not work for me. I guess I should install compiz or continue with kde for my second user.

[Martin Gustafsson (martin-gustafsson)]

I installed compiz and tried to activate the gnome-wm again as the second user. This time I got an error about not being able to find a white-listed driver and something about missing some xlg-driver.
However, I made a dist-upgrade today and now I can't reproduce the bug anymore. The bug seems to be fixed.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add your ~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of lspci -vvnn to your bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Gustafsson (martin-gustafsson)]

I removed compiz again and got the same behaviour as before.
Please find the attached logs as requested.

[dmoyne (daniel-moyne)]

I confirm this bug on x86_64 machine with Hardy and compiz as systematically used with Gnome ; as I am not a typical Gnome user I cannot relate this bug to the latest upgrade.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Gustafsson (martin-gustafsson)]

This is not an issue for me any longer. I am now running 8.10.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you, Martin. Closing this bug.

[buntu_hugenewbie11 (dwozniak)]

I have this problem.
There is no way to move a window.
There is also no task bar to close it.
Attached is a screenshot.
Notice how there is no task bar around the window.
Please help.