unity top bar and side bar does not show after boot

[Jorge Gustavo]

i) fresh 11.10 installation
ii) all updates installed
iii) nvidia updated to 2.90
iv)

a) I've used gnome-tweak-tool to disable "Have file manager handle the desktop"
b) I've activeted 'Wallpaper' compiz plugin to define custom backgrounds for each desktop

After boot, the side bar and the top bar are not visible. Just the shadow of the top bar. But that's the only problem, and everything works. The top bar and side bar shows immediatly, pressing the dash key, and afterwards, they are visible.

This alreadu happened in anothe laptop, but with many other things installed. Now I was able to isolate the problem.

Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Linux beijing 3.0.0-15-generic-pae #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 20 17:07:31 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

nvidia-current 290.10-0ubuntu1~oneiric~xup1
unity 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
compizconfig-settings-manager 0.9.5.92-0ubuntu1
gnome-tweak-tool 3.2.0-0ubuntu1

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Does a unity --reset fix the issue? If so then this has to do with the wallpaper plugin.

[Jorge Gustavo (jgr)]

Hi Bilal,

Thank you.
After unity --reset the top bar and side bar were back.
So, once more, I've enabled Compiz Wallpaper plugin. Then the top bar and side bar are not shown after boot. Pressing dash key, the bars appear and everything works great. The only minor problem is that the bars are not visible immediatly after boot/session.

I've added compiz to the affected projects.