Title Bar Missing

[Treefingers]

Im not sure if i even did anything, but i was trying to get p7zip to work (which i still cant) and i logged out. When i logged back in the title bar was missing and when i use cairo dock instead of a glassy looking background it has a solid black bar. As of now i cant grab minimize or close windows via point/click methods.

Also i cant open the windows manager or reorder my open windows.

I get this message when i try and open the windows manager from the "look and feel" menu:

"Cannot start the preferences application for your window manager

Window manager "unknown" has not registered a configuration tool"

[JohnVV]

so you did not do it the easy way (p7zip)

yum search p7zip
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
================================ Matched: p7zip ================================
kio_p7zip.i386 : Kio-slave for 7Zip archives
p7zip.i386 : Very high compression ratio file archiver
p7zip-plugins.i386 : Additional plugins for p7zip

then

su -
yum install p7zip

What did you do ?
what ever it was messed up some config file in your home folder.
Can you login as root and dose that desktop work ?
if it dose then login as user and go to your home folder a rename .gnome2 to .gnome2-orig
to see the hidden folders hit " ctrl + h "
reboot ad redo your settings

[Treefingers]

Yeah, thats what i typed, so i have a feeling it was something i did previously to mess it up. Someone on another forum told me to post these settings so maybe it would help someone figure this out.

Originally Posted by Terminal

[Jake@...~]$ startx
xauth: creating new authority file /home/Jake/.serverauth.28820


Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

Originally Posted by xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[JohnVV]

i am a bit confused still .
the system dose boot into Gnome and you do see your desktop after login
but the

the title bar was missing

is not at the top with "applications ,places , system -- then on the right " the time "
"cairo dock instead of a glassy looking background it has a solid black bar."
What desktop manager are you using ( Gnome,kde,xfce, E17) and is it on fedora 9,8,7
and are you running compz-fusion

[Treefingers]

Yeah I am logged into my user right now. The title bar, being the top bar and all windows which allows one to grab and move, close, minimize, maximize etc.. is missing. I cannot move, resize, or reorganize any windows. I am running Gnome on F9. The bar you mention is appearing, just not the one on each window, like firefox, for example.
And im not sure if im running compiz-fusion. i tried to see if i could download compiz and the terminal said it was already installed.

[Treefingers]

Originally Posted by JohnVV

What did you do ?
what ever it was messed up some config file in your home folder.
Can you login as root and dose that desktop work ?
if it dose then login as user and go to your home folder a rename .gnome2 to .gnome2-orig
to see the hidden folders hit " ctrl + h "
reboot ad redo your settings

I tried this and it worked, but i have 2 .gnome folders now... .gnome and .gnome-orig

thanks for your help btw

If i log out after i do this the problem is there again and i just redo this and it works again. Do i want to change .gnome2 ---> .gnome2-orig and then delete .gnome2 and change .gnome2-orig ---> .gnome2?

Or how can I make this permanent?

[JohnVV]

now if you want to find out what went wrong .One at a time copy a file from .gnome-old and .gnome2-old back to .gnome and .gnome2 .With a logout/login after each file until you recreate the problem . from the name of that file we can figure what caused it .
It's time consuming so it is up to you .

[Treefingers]

Well, i didnt try that method but i discovered every time i enable System --> Preferneces--> Personal --> Sessions -->Session Options -->"Remember Currently Running Applications" when i reboot my computer has this problem.

[JohnVV]

that is because "Remember Currently Running Applications" starts compz-fusion without using the Compiz Fusion Icon.
run Compiz Fusion Icon and run"reload window manager"
and that should/ might get it back it
and turn off "Remember Currently Running Applications"

[Treefingers]

So, I opened Gnome compiz preferences and got this error.-

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-compiz-preferences. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

"Type mismatch: Expected list, got string
Type mismatch: Expected list, got string
Type mismatch: Expected list, got string"