Easy question for people in regards to windows...

[d-d-d-d-d-d-card]

HI, after reinstalling Gnome and NAutilus, i rebooted my pc to find a few changes, such as larger text, etc.

I've sorted out all the major things so that my ubuntu looked like before, but now when I open windows they ALWAYS maximise, which is annoying, and the.. I don't know what you'd call it... title bar... of each window where before there would usually be an exit, maximise, and minimise symbol is not present.

I also can't drag windows about with having to hold in the 'alt button' arggghh

I've looked everywhere in settings to fix this, but I can't find where to edit these particular settings.. can anyone help?

[Achetar]

Delete the .gnome and .gconf2 and .gtkrc files in your home directory. That should reset everything back to defaults (ie Live CD defaults)

[d-d-d-d-d-d-card]

Those are hidden files, yeah?

HOw do I enable viewing of these? Ive never had to do this before xD

[Izek]

Those are hidden files, yeah?

HOw do I enable viewing of these? Ive never had to do this before xD

Right-click a blank space in the file manager and there's an option for it.

[Ludachrispeed]

This problem happens to me with Firefox... I usually use opera so it was never super annoying...

In order to close Firefox, I open up a Terminal and type


ps -A | grep firefox

which searchas all the active processes for firefox.

It returns something like...

7696 firefox

Then I say


kill 7696

It's a terrible solution, but it's all I could think of. I'm still pretty noobish.