Natty, Gnome and Wobbly Windows

[danduq]

OK, so I got fed up with Unity again and decided to switch back to classic, but lost my wobbly windows again. So, from previous comments;

$ wmctrl -m
Name: Metacity
Class: N/A
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: N/A

So it seems like I am using Metacity for some reason.

Now, when I run compiz --replace in a terminal, everything starts working again! BUT the terminal sits at

Setting Update "map_effect"

and doesn't end. If I ctrl+c it, I get a segmentation fault.

Any ideas how I can proceed from here?

Thanks!

[stinkeye]

Press alt+F2 and run

compiz --replace

from there.

[danduq]

Thanks Stinkeye, but this results in my screen freezing completely. I am still able to move the mouse pointer around, but nothing else. I have to then go to another terminal (or tty, or whatever it's called when you do ctrl+alt+F1) and do a gdm restart.

[stinkeye]

If you have the proprietary drivers installed and compiz won't run
I'm afraid there is little I can help you with.
For me I had no problems with a Nvidia GeForce 9400GT running driver version 270.41.06

[danduq]

That's just it. Before I upgraded to 11.04 and Unity, it all worked fine, so I know the combination of my graphics card, driver, compiz and gnome are compatible.

Thanks for your help though. I will keep soldiering on.

[danduq]

OK, this is beginning to drive me crazy. I cannot get compiz to run in Gnome and I can't get any errors out of it. When I run the compiz --replace command, my windows rearrange themselves and then freeze. The mouse pointer can move around, but I can't do anything. I have to do a gdm restart, which of course then restarts Gnome with Metacity.

I have tried removing all Unity stuff, reinstalling gnome, reinstalling compiz, reinstalling ubuntu-desktop. Nothing seems to work.

Any ways that I may be able to troubleshoot this would be appreciated. Unity has been doing my head in and I don't think I can use it without putting a foot through my monitor.