Ubuntu 12.04 Missing Close, Minimize and Maximize Button after Update and Upgrade

unity gnome upgrade compiz metacity

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Solution 1

Hope this works: try this:

gtk-window-decorator --replace

Solution 2

This problem prevails only when the video driver of the system is not compatible or not installed. Check in hardware upgrade, is there any updates available for your hardware. And if not, search for the drivers for the specific hardware and install it to overcome this problem.

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sugab

Ubuntu user, beginner. Equipped with old MBP: Intel® Core™ i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz × 4 and 16 GB ram. Most used apps: Gedit, Firefox, vim, gnome-term, GNU/Octave, minbar, sound, sox, praat, audacity, libsnd, SPTK, nautilus, sunrise, Chromium, Lyx, Latex, Libreoffice, gcc/g++, clang/clang++, Arduino, python3. Save power, more life. Minimal install, maximum speed.

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

sugab over 1 year

I just do update and upgrade, but I miss close, minimize and maximize button along with top border title bar after that.

I did metacity --replace and unity --reset, It didn't work for me.

Also, I set in the gconf-editor default metacity>general to close, minimize, maximize:

and it didn't work.

The last, I unchecked windows decoration in Compiz, and it didn't work too.

Any help will be highly appreciated, and I attach a screenshot of a window without the title bar as one example of my problem.
sugab about 10 years

Thank's for your reply. I think so. However, it back again after I uninstalled intel-graphic-driver, doing again metacity --replace, unity --reset and check compiz window decoration. Thank you! Love the Ubuntu and the community!
kushvarma about 10 years

which system do you have? and does it has external graphics card like nvidia or AMD?
sugab about 10 years

I use Ubuntu 12.04 precise. Sadly, the problem appears again, I don't have title bar on some of my apps window. My machine is lenovo g580 i7, i think it uses intel graphic card. no external graphics is used.
sugab about 10 years

I tried it before, it doesn't work at this time.
sugab about 10 years

I updated to 14.04, and the problem still presents, missing title bar on some window application such as terminal, skype and other.
kushvarma about 10 years

why did you update to an unstable version. it has to be buggy. I researched about your system drivers but Intel stopped driver support of 12.04. try this link 01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads. try to install a stable version like 13.10, the drivers are available. My system with NVIDIA has these types of problem initially. but when new version of updated drivers came, it got resolved.
sugab about 10 years

However, it is solved after upgrading to 14.04 and do update - upgrade continuously.