Missing Maximize/Minimize/Close icons, invisible cursor

[Lipooo]

I am new. I have installed recently a bunch of distros and settled with xubuntu 11.04 for my old laptop. Everything worked fine out of the box except some times wireless stopped working and the pc needed a restart. One of those times i restarted and because restart seemed unresponsive I clicked again but a problem tab poped up. Every time that i clicked restart, the pop up appeard I was forced to force shutdown.

Now...
1. Maximize/Minimize/Close buttons are completly missing. Even windows settings (where you can unjust those buttons) does not work. It is blank.

2. Cursor is invisible but when i click something appears , stays visible but the cursor is a different icon than before.

3. other problems as well. I cannot move terminal etc...

[JanisL]

I am having this exact same problem with Xubuntu running on a Lenovo laptop.

[Toz]

Looks like the window manager isn't working. Press Alt+F2 and type in:

xfwm4 --replace

Does everything improve? If so, and if you lose everything again the next time you login, you will need to add that command to your autostart.

[rulorojo]

Bravo, had the same problem !
thank you!

[theprophet84]

Thanks, you just saved me from having to turn in my Comp. Sci. homework. The teacher overlooks my apathy if I fix his computer.

[amarad]

Thank you very much, very helpful. I had the same problem after installing KDE KMahjongg on my Acer Aspire One notebook, running with XUbuntu 12.10 with Xfce4.10 Environment and your little trick solved it miraculously

[cmcanulty]

I've had that happen on gnome classic and ended up reinstalling is there a similar command for classic?

[ibrahimjackson]

Thanks! I'll be keeping this handy!