No window manager on login

[Alex Ruddick]

This is a regression; everything worked fine until the last few days, with metacity as default although I have compiz installed.
I'm running GNOME alongside KDE4 on Jaunty up-to-date as of today, with the nVidia driver.
When I login to GNOME, there are no window decorations drawn. ATo get them back, one of two things works:
(1) System > Prefs > Appearance > Visual Effects. Setting them to Extra launches Compiz as expected. This setting does not appear to persist, though.
(2) Running "compiz" or "metacity" in a terminal.

EDITED: I got mixed up with WM and window decorator. gtk-window-decorator -> metacity.

[Alex Ruddick (alexrudd0)]

It would appear that metacity is not launched, either. When I open an application, I can't move it with Alt + drag, nor close it with Alt+F4.

[Etienne Lepercq (e-guepe)]

I have _exactly_ the same bug !
With a fresh account (I created one for test purpose) this bug does not appear. I am trying to figure out where does this come, but found nothing yet.

I have an nvidia 8600, Jaunty up-to-date. I am using compiz as a window decorator, choosing System > Prefs > Appearance > Visual Effects and Extra launches compiz and everything run fine...

I attached my .xsession-errors also. I had this bug when I updated from 8.10 to current Jaunty, two-three days ago.

These commands :
echo "conf: $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS"
echo "home: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME"

Does not provide any output (except a poor conf: and home: )

[Andrea De Pasquale (depasquale-andrea)]

This one affects me too. Fresh install but old /home partition. Probably a configuration issue.
Same issue (no decorations), same workarounds (1-2) to get a window manager.

[nexus (bugie)]

Same issue here after upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04. Compiz works fine if I start it manually, but isn't retained after reboot.

Workaround: adding "compiz --replace" to autostart. This wasn't necessary in 8.10.

Kind regards,
Florian

[Martin Kossick (hacktick)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Alex Ruddick (alexrudd0)]

I have not installed Ubuntu for some time now, but am not seeing this problem any more on current releases. I don't remember if it was fixed or if I found a workaround a long time ago, though.

[Dan Trevino (dantrevino)]

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