martes, agosto 11, 2009

Gnome title bar crash (it dissapear)

Hi everybody,

Just a few weeks ago one day I switch on my PC with Ubuntu and realize that I had no title bar, this one that allows you to resize the window and minimize, close, etc... Moreover, I realize that I had no filemanager too.

I started to search for a solution surfing the internet but (amazingly) I realized that there were difficult to resolve my problem, I read a few articles speaking about gconf-editor, gnome-panel, metacity, nautilus, gnome-wm and more, but everything I read simply don't work for me.

Then I start to mix all the information gather and get a solution, I think it is not the best solution because I don't discover wich is exactly the problem, why it started and wich is it's solution but at least nowadays I don't get affected by it.

Just to avoid open a shell everytime I login and execute explicitly metacity and nautilus... System > Preferences > (Programs at startup | Applications at startup | Programas al inicio) and then we need to create two launchers one for the file manager... Create and in "Order, Command, Orden..." type /usr/bin/nautilus (or your prefered file manager). Again the same with the window manager, Create and in Order... /usr/bin/metacity.

I know it's not the best solution (or maybe yes but I cannot say it because I don't know the source of the problem really) but at least it work pretty well.

Sorry for mistakes, you know, I'm not english.