Interesting Gnome window manager problem - Help

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 11:25 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> On the weekend I did some updates which were required and when I logged
> back in I couldn't get the window manager working- which means I have no
> window borders and creates any number of problems (which if anyone has
> lost their borders would know).
> 
> 1. Has anyone else had this problem?
> 2. Where the hell do I start to fix this?
> 
> I tried reinstalling Gnome with some disastrous consequences (overcome
> now obviously as now I am emailing again.)- still no luck. And I can't
> find a window manager as such for Gnome, so this is why haven't been
> able to track it. And why would it come up after the updates?

The usual Gnome window manager is Metacity. You should be able simply to
run it from a Shell in the worst case.

poc