Title bars disappear and top panel is covered by menu bar

[florfullagorfull]

I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and decided to try a save session as I had many windows opened and wanted them to come back as they were when I restarted the PC. As a test I restarted the PC (it's a legacy PC: P3 500, 256MB, GForce 2MX using the Nvidia legacy driver) and while a few of windows opened, they did not all open and the 3 that did open (Terminal, PDF viewer and Firefox) the title bars were gone and the top panel was covered. The windows cannot be moved, you cannot resize them and they are top left justified with a small visible area of the desktop on the right and the bottom. I used the file menu to close all the windows and went into the sessions app. to remove the check mark to stop the save session and saved the session to start with an empty desktop. While that worked, when you start any app the title bar is not there and the menu bar covers the top panel same as before. I tried moving the top panel to the bottom of the screen and then back to the top but it doesn't help.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

What version of Ubuntu are you using (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc)?
Also, can you describe specifically what you are doing to save your session?

For most sessions, holding down "Alt" and click-dragging a window will allow you to move it, if that helps debug your situation.

Thanks in advance.

[florfullagorfull (sandrews)]

Hi Kees,

I was using Ubuntu 7.04 (I386). I reread the data in my bug report and it
basically says it all. Unfortunately I reinstalled 7.07 and then switched to
FC7. When Ubuntu 7.10 comes out, I'll give it a try also.

Scotty

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Kees
Cook
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:57 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 111659] Re: Title bars disappear and top panel is covered by
menu bar

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better.

What version of Ubuntu are you using (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc)?
Also, can you describe specifically what you are doing to save your session?

For most sessions, holding down "Alt" and click-dragging a window will
allow you to move it, if that helps debug your situation.

Thanks in advance.

** Changed in: Ubuntu
   Importance: Undecided => Medium
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Kees Cook
       Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

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[bosewicht (csunderman1-hawaiiantel)]

Sounds like the same problem here with Ubuntu Feisty. Application menus cover the panel menu, "clicking" on the panel, brings it to the front though and i am still able to move windows

[jitz0722 (jgoncalves)]

Hi:

This similar thing has been bugging for some time Gutsy Gibbon 7.10.
After I first enabled compiz and played with settings
after doing sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Anyway to Fix it I went to Preferences->Advanced Desktop Effects Settings
  Select "Window Management"->"Place Windows"
    -Placement mode set to "smart"
    -Enable Place Windows

[Amrith (amrithraj-r)]

Even I am facing the same problem on Gutsy .
But the solution given by jitz0722 doesnt work..

[Confucious (balajirengaswamy)]

Missing title bars can be fixed as follows:
Go to => Preferences->Advanced Desktop....
Select Effects->"Windows Decoration"

If it does not work:
- turn off the windows decoration
- close all applications
- restart window manager (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - will kill all ur applications)
- turn on the windows decoration

I used the 2nd approach, so not sure abt the 1st one

[teaguecole (teaguecole)]

I have this problem in version 9.04. However in order to fix it, I went to appearance and changed the visual effects from extra to none and back and the problem went away.

[Rahentho (rahentho)]

teaguecole solution worked! bug fixed on ubuntu 7.04 LTS