Upgrading to Gutsy Gibbon & Encountering Issues

A few weeks ago, I upgraded Ubuntu to Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), and everything seemed to be working fine—until I rebooted. That’s when I noticed a strange issue: the title bars and window control buttons (close, minimize, and maximize) were missing!

Searching for a Solution

I searched online and found that this problem wasn’t unique. Many people had experienced it, and the common suggestion was to restart the window manager using:

metacity --replace

This worked temporarily, but the issue would return after a reboot.

A More Permanent Fix

After some more digging, I found that the problem was related to Compiz Fusion. The fix was to reset my window manager settings:

Open a terminal and type

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz

Restart the window manager:

metacity --replace &

Enable Compiz Fusion again via the settings.

Conclusion

This resolved the issue for me, and now everything is working fine! If you’ve encountered a similar problem after upgrading to Gutsy Gibbon, hopefully, this fix will help.