In 11.04, using traditional GNOME (not Unity), windows suddenly lose their decorations way too often:
For the next time this happens, can anyone suggest a fix that would be quicker than logging out & back in (i.e., having to close all programs)? Perhaps relaunching some service or process?
NB: simply doing metacity --replace does not fully fix the GNOME session; at least visual effects are lost.
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It's unity-window-decorator & (or if you cannot type anything, go to a virtual terminal and do DISPLAY=:0.0 unity-window-decorator &).
I fixed this issue permanently by entering CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM) —if you don't have it do sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager—, going into the Window Decorations options, and changing the Command setting to compiz-decorator.
Backing out of this menu, then unchecking Window Decoration, allowing the desktop to reload, then checking Window Decoration and exiting out of CCSM.
After doing this, I can no longer reproduce the issue.
