No window border

[johnnyrootbeer]

Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

-I powered on the computer, Ubuntu booted up normally. The mouse pointer showed the little round circle as if processing but it would not go back to the normal arrow.
-All applications had no window border and would appear one line (width of bottom panel) above the bottom panel.

I went into appearance and noticed that visual effects were set to NONE. When I changed the visual effects to NORMAL the window border came back to normal. However, when I opened the update manager, the "starting update manager" window had no window border yet other application did. I rechecked the appearance>visual effects and it was back to NONE.

* also for some reason the numpad stopped working even with numlock on or off

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 18 21:07:46 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: ubuntuone-client 0.95.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

[John O'Brien (jdobrien)]

This sounds to be an issue with Ubuntu (Karmic) affecting everything and not really an ubuntuone-client problem.

[dobey (dobey)]

This is an issue with compiz I presume. I had similar trouble with a recent update, which I worked around by switching back to metacity for the interim.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

What version of compiz are you using? What is the output of `dpkg --list | grep compiz`?

[johnnyrootbeer (johnnyrootbeer)]

This is the complete output of `dpkg --list | grep compiz` . I am not sure how to change back to metacity from interim. I checked again today and it was the same but all I do is change the settings to NORMAL and it comes back to normal. The settings dont stay at normal because I noticed that after I close it (appearance>visual effects) and reopen it again the settings have switched back to NONE but window border stays normal. So it only happens everytime I reboot or start the computer. The settings dont seem to save.

THANKS ALL

:~$ dpkg --list |grep compiz
ii compiz-core 1:0.8.3+git20090917-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager
rc compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.8.2-0ubuntu4 Collection of extra plugins from OpenComposi
rc compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.8.2-0ubuntu5 Collection of plugins from OpenCompositing f
rc compiz-gnome 1:0.8.2-0ubuntu16 OpenGL window and compositing manager - GNOM
ii compiz-plugins 1:0.8.3+git20090917-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager - plug
ii compiz-wrapper 1:0.8.3+git20090917-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager, wrapp
rc libcompizconfig0 0.8.2-0ubuntu2 Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositi

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 432871

This will help us to find and resolve the problem. Bear in mind that you may need to install the python-launchpadlib package from the universe repository. Additionally, when prompted to give apport-collect permissions for Launchpad you will need to give it at least the ability to "Change Non-Private" data as it will be adding information to your bug report. Thanks in advance!

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[johnnyrootbeer (johnnyrootbeer)]

Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins'
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: compiz (not installed)
PciDisplay: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] [1002:4153]
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=3f99cdbc-8abe-4e9f-80ce-ac740d1ca30b ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu5
 libdrm2 2.4.13-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 05/15/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F6
dmi.board.name: 8IPE1000
dmi.board.vendor: Seanix
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF6:bd05/15/2003:svn:pn:pvr:rvnSeanix:rn8IPE1000:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = i686, kernel = 2.6.31-10-generic

[johnnyrootbeer (johnnyrootbeer)]

Thanks Travis, and that wiki really helped out I was not really sure how to use launchpad and am still very new to ubuntu and Linux altogether.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

I see the problem, your compiz configuration has gotten corrupted somehow. Your plugins list is completely empty. Run the following command then try to start compiz again:

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz

That will set your compiz settings back to the defaults and it should all work again.

[johnnyrootbeer (johnnyrootbeer)]

I tried the command and and got this output:

:~$ gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz
:~$ compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'animation'
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'animation'
Couldn't find a perfect decorator match; trying all decorators
Found no decorator to start

The window border did come back but once I restarted again it wasnt there. I went back to the terminal loaded compiz and the border became visible again. The same output as above.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Ok, now we get back to first information you gave me, I should have noticed this early. Half of compiz is currently uninstalled. Install the compiz package and everything should start working again.

[David Edge (technodave)]

Thanks Travis, i had the same problem and reinstalling compiz with synaptic fixed this.

[johnnyrootbeer (johnnyrootbeer)]

Ya! thanks Travis this really helped out. I now get the border around the window again.......Good Work!! I wonder how it got uninstalled in the first place, I noticed it started to happen after the last update. Thanks again. :)

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

No problem, glad I could help.

Closing this bug since it was a configuration issue.