Metacity/Compiz fails to start at login

[Stuart Colville]

Binary package hint: metacity

At login windows appear without title bars. If I manually start metacity or compiz the window titles appear.

I've tried removing ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/session/required_components and disabling visual effects but no window titles appear upon restart. This looks like a duplicate of #560082 but I can confirm for me compiz is definitely installed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: metacity 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 16 22:43:43 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: metacity

[Stuart Colville (muffinresearch)]

I've managed to fix this with the following:

cd .local/share/applications/
mv compiz.desktop{,.old}

After logging out and back in again, window titles are still not there but compiz *is* shown as running.

Switching Visual Effects in System -> Preferences -> Appearance to "None" and back to "Extra" fixed it.

[Koen Roggemans (koen-roggemans)]

thanks, this solved my problem too