Gnome Decorations Killed.

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:16:10AM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> Between the updates and playing with comopiz and beryl, the Gnome
> desktop has stopped decorating windows.  Xterm now starts in the
> upper left, covering up the Gnome menu.

That usually means that your window manager, whatever that happens
to be in a given moment, is not running.  Most likely it crashes
on a startup.

In that "upper left corner" xterm window try to type

    metacity &

and if that is causing complaints that some other window-manager
process is already running then try

   killall <that_other_wm> && metacity &

possibly few times.  Does it help?

    Michal