Ubuntu – How To Fix Missing Titlebars July 15th, 2010
A fairly common issue within Ubuntu after installing and configuring Compiz is that your titlebars disappear leaving you with an unsightly workspace and in some instances, the inability to close windows and applications. The problem seems to affect mostly systems with an NVidia GPU and in my case, occurred after switching to a higher resolution on my second monitor. The fix is thankfully, simple:
- Open a terminal window and type:
sudo su
followed by your password when prompted and then:
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf - Once gedit opens scroll down to the ‘Device’ section and just before ‘EndSection’ add the following:
Option “AddARGBVisuals” “True”
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True” - Save the file
- Restart Ubuntu
You should now find that all of the titlebars return and life is good again. The above method should work for all recent releases, I’m using 10.04 Lucid.
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Malky Says:
Or you could install fusion-icon. Then when your titlebars disappear, click fusion-icon and all will be restored to former glory.
I do this on Gentoo 10.0 quite often. (as the fix you suggest in xorg.conf doesn’t always work) Yep, that’s right Mike, I said Gentoo 10. Yay! (Yep, it’s Malky from Central FM – well, used to be)
