Windows displayed incorrectly? (no functional compiz window manager)

[Jim Cornette]

Knute Johnson wrote:
>> 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,
> 

I guess 'metacity --replace &' would free up the terminal window.

If you wanted to permanently change the window manager, 
'gnome-session-properties &' has the save the current session option 
under session options.

The last time that I needed to deal with a defunct window manager, I ran 
these commands as the current GUI user from a gnome-terminal. (All 
lapped over in the upper left corner before starting the window manager) 
You should be able to launch a terminal from applications/System 
tools/terminal from the menu.

Jim