Window Manager Ubuntu 10.04

[naitsirhc]

Thanks to Christophe Weis responding to the bug reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/563161

to fix the issue, you can simply add a symlink to get things working:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/compiz /usr/bin/compiz.real

Apparently after upgrading to 10.04, the file /usr/bin/compiz.real is missing as Christophe points out is mentioned in syslog.

[cudaboy]

I had a similar issue, but with the Compiz Fusion Icon app I was using with 9.10 and something similar to this fixed it. Old command in the Start Apps was grey (unavailable) so I just removed it and created a new one with the command:

/usr/bin/compiz-decorator

thanks!

Hello. I have my windows back to normal after the upgrade by adding a new entry that uses the command

/usr/bin/compiz

Hope this helps!

[felixq78]

I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 and my window manager icons are on the LEFT HS of the window not on the right as usual. How do I change it back to normal.

[mathfreak123]

I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 and my window manager icons are on the LEFT HS of the window not on the right as usual. How do I change it back to normal.

Easiest solution (or it worked for me):
System -> preferences -> Appearance. Select "Human-Clearlooks", then customize based off of that theme.

[bancs]

have a try to turn the toolbars back on, but turn off Desktop Effects.

[Xanthomryr]

I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 and my window manager icons are on the LEFT HS of the window not on the right as usual. How do I change it back to normal.

As normal user type into the terminal:

gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"

[MrByte1]

I had a similar issue, but with the Compiz Fusion Icon app I was using with 9.10 and something similar to this fixed it. Old command in the Start Apps was grey (unavailable) so I just removed it and created a new one with the command:

/usr/bin/compiz-decorator

thanks!

I was also able to solve this by placing the Compiz Fusion Icon in the startup (fusion-icon). It causes a) the Icon to be in the Panel and b) to have it accesible anytime and most importantly c) the windows manager on startup fixes the windows decorator issue.....

[milesnapue]

Hello. I have my windows back to normal after the upgrade by adding a new entry that uses the command

/usr/bin/compiz

Hope this helps!

Perfect, thanks, this fixed my small problem perfectly!

[leona]

How did you set emerald to run automatically when you installed it? Undo that change and things will start to work agan.

If you added "emerald --replace" to startup comamnds in System/PReferences/Startup Applications, then remove it.

R, if you did it properly and configured Compiz to use Emerald as it's decorator, then open CompizConfig Settings Manager, go to Window Decoration-plugin's settings and set the command to "/usr/bin/compiz-decorator" (or just click the brush icon next to this option to automatically reset it to defaults).

Oh thank you, thank you , thank you so much, that fixed my problem too, great.

[AbeJarano]

Thanks, that worked for me, also.