Ubuntu
mutter package

  1. Bug #2057964
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 2057964

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote (last edit ): Re: xserver for NVDIA GeForce GT710 not showing widgets but windows

Thanks. You reported the original bug from a Wayland session. Please try logging out and then selecting the Xorg session on the login screen. Does the bug still occur?

I suspect that's the main issue here. Not the presence of nvdia-driver-470 directly, but it will change what default session type you get. nvdia-driver-470 will force a Xorg session by default which allows apps to place windows/widgets themselves. Not having an Nvidia driver installed, you will get a Wayland session and apps are not allowed to position themselves (although I thought gnome-shell had a workaround for that for compatibility with Xwayland).

Please:

1. Uninstall nvdia-driver-470

2. Reboot

3. On the login screen select 'Ubuntu on Xorg' instead of the default 'Ubuntu' option.