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   Subject: Re: No Windows (Manager) and No Sound   
   From: Patient Guy    
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   SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
      
   > * Patient Guy wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >    
   >> 6.06 Ubuntu "D" version   
   >    
   >> Don't know what happened but I have no "windows" under GNOME.   
   >    
   >> The window that appear remain fixed on the upper left corner.  There is   
   >> not top bar window controls (max, min, close) and no resize.   
   >    
   >> I must have inadvertently set a modeless windows mode.   
   >    
   >> No task bar at bottom either.   
   >    
   >> When I go to System->Preferences->Windows, I get an alert:   
   >    
   >>    Cannot start the preferences application for your window manager   
   >>    Window manager "unknown" has not registered a configuration tool   
   >    
   >> I can't seem to find anything in GNOME that will give me my "manager."   
   >    
   >> Any ideas?   
   >    
   > Can you open a terminal?   
      
   Yes   
      
   > Try:   
   >    
   > $ metacity 2> /dev/null &   
      
   Job went into background, but I saw nothing.   
      
   > For some reason your window manager isnt starting. Did you install   
   > something new?   
      
   I had been updating packages...there was a big update of several packages.   
      
   Today, a new Linux kernel was put in, but this problem was occurring    
   before the kernel was installed.   
      
   What's happening is that I get the username/password welcome screen.   
      
   Then it shows a terminal automatically...don't know why.   
      
   And it holds on large icon with Ubuntu logo and text that says "Window    
   Manager" on the bottom.  If I don't touch anything, it just sits there.     
   But if I make a mouse click, the terminal remains but Window Manager icon    
   disappears, and the rest of Gnome continues loading, with a top bar (menu:     
   Application / Places / System) and an icon for quitting the system.   
      
   In the bottom bar:  at the lower left is an icon.   
      
   There is NO default set of 4 workspaces.   
      
   When windows get opened, they stack on one another...clicking on an    
   inactive window does NOT bring it to the front as an active window.  There    
   are no task bottom bar controls (buttons) to indicate or to activate    
   windows.   
      
   Yes, something is amiss.   
      
   Oh, and I have no system sound, but I haven't had that since installing    
   the system in the first place.   
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