Windows displayed incorrectly? (no functional compiz window manager)

[Knute Johnson]

>David Nielsen wrote:
>> søn, 13 05 2007 kl. 13:52 -0700, skrev Knute Johnson:
>>> I've been playing with F7 and have managed to mess up my desktop 
>>> somehow.  Any windows that I open have no title bar and are in the 
>>> upper left corner of the screen over the toolbar.  I've tried 
>>> everything I can think of to fix it.  I've reloaded gdm, I've tried 
>>> resetting display sizes, and I removed and replaced the toolbar.  If 
>>> I start the computer as root it works fine, it is just my user that 
>>> is messed up.  If I use kde or xfce the problem is the same.  Any 
>>> ideas what I've messed up?
>> 
>> I'm seeing the same thing with Compiz enabled curently, it's odd since
>> for the most part Compiz has behaved really well all during the F7
>> cycle. Do we have a bug on this?
>> 
>> - David
>> 
>
>The symptom sounds like the window manager is not functional. You might 
>try metacity --replace and file a bug regarding compiz malfunctioning.
>
>Jim

Jim:

Thanks for the response.  I tried metacity --replace and when I press 
<ENTER> the window headers immediately appear.  metacity does nothing 
for a few minutes and then prints;

[root at localhost knute]# metacity --replace
Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x2600007 
specified for 0x2600023 (Input).
Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x2600007 
specified for 0x2600023 (Input).
Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x2600007 
specified for 0x2600023 (Input).
Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x2600007 
specified for 0x2600023 (Input).

and then nothing.  It does not return to the prompt.  If I kill 
metacity the window headers immediately disappear.

Anything else I can try?  Why would it work fine for root but not me?

Thanks,

-- 
Knute Johnson
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