uninstall Window Manager?

Ballistic · 04-12-2006, 02:19 PM

Ok, this one's new to me...

I updated fglrx last night(didn't reboot then), and for some reason when I login today, it looks like Window Manager is pooched. There's no frames, and no title bars on any of my windows, so i can't move anything around.

EDIT: I just checked, and it's only affecting Gnome Window Manager. KDE seems fine.

Is there a way to reinstall or roll back Window Manager?

batty_professor · 04-12-2006, 09:04 PM

No frames?? not even so much as the colored bar across the top of the window? If the colored bar is there, you might right click on it, and select configure window behavior from the drop down list. If there really is no other way, you can reinstall gnome from your package manager. The bookmarks, and preferences are kept in hidden files in your home or user data. So that is not lost in the reinstall. Though you may need to reconfigure the links afterward. that would be evidenced when you click on a desktop or home folder item, and it fails to open.

Ballistic · 04-13-2006, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by batty_professor

No frames?? not even so much as the colored bar across the top of the window?

Yup, that's exactly what's missing...

Quote:

Originally Posted by batty_professor

If there really is no other way, you can reinstall gnome from your package manager.

Well, that's a better option that the other ones I've seen so far...
I'm not really willing to disable SELinux just for that....

Any idea how to force YUM to reinstall? Or RPM, anything?

Ballistic · 04-13-2006, 02:15 PM

Ah, well....I got sick of the no frames thing quick and just set SELinux to permissive...I'm all back to normal now...Mostly

04-12-2006, 02:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ballistic Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 117 OS: Currently Ubuntu, XP Pro...Various flavors of *Nix	uninstall Window Manager? Ok, this one's new to me... I updated fglrx last night(didn't reboot then), and for some reason when I login today, it looks like Window Manager is pooched. There's no frames, and no title bars on any of my windows, so i can't move anything around. EDIT: I just checked, and it's only affecting Gnome Window Manager. KDE seems fine. Is there a way to reinstall or roll back Window Manager? Last edited by Ballistic; 04-12-2006 at 02:25 PM.

04-12-2006, 09:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
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04-13-2006, 02:15 PM	#4 (permalink)
Ballistic Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 117 OS: Currently Ubuntu, XP Pro...Various flavors of *Nix	Ah, well....I got sick of the no frames thing quick and just set SELinux to permissive...I'm all back to normal now...Mostly