all windows under gnome shell lack the close, minimize and maximize buttons

[Dylan Borg]

Using gnome-shell 46 on noble, no window seems to be rendering the close, maximize and minimize buttons. Trying to click in the top right corner to look for buttons that are transparent yielded no result. The buttons seem to not be present at all.

I have tried to reinstall gnome-shell-common since a forum post indicates that it contains the assets required to draw those buttons, but it was all in vain.

As a workaround I am riht clicking on the window title/headerbars to reveal the context menu with which I can close the window successfully.

This seems to be related to the issue where gdm3 is not drawing the login widgets at all (switched to sddm to workaround).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: gnome-shell 46.0-0ubuntu3.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.4-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu
Date: Sat Apr 6 11:22:19 2024
DisplayManager: sddm
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-19 (2969 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 46.0-1ubuntu6
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-03-29 (8 days ago)

[Dylan Borg (borgdylan)]

I seem to have fixed this, the gnome-session package was missing on my machine (uninstalled by the dependency issue that ensued due to the archive rebuild)