Re: Window Borders Disappear

[Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:05:24AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:42 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
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> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:06:59PM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:26 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
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> > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:42:09PM +0000, Jack Schneider wrote:
> > > > > Hi, folks
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> > > > > I have lost my Desktop window borders. I am using Debian "lenny"
> > > > > updated. Problem occurred after an abortedattempt to install Compiz..
> > > > > I get the following error from theSystem>preferences>windows menu..  "
> > > > > Cannot start the preferences application for your window
> > > > > manager.Window manager "unknown" has not registered a configuration
> > > > > tool..
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any help would be great...  J ack
> > > > > 
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> > > > 
> > > > Why don't you try aptitude reinstall metacity? That may work.
> > > > 
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> > aptitude purge metacity && aptitude install metacity (If this gives you
> > dependency errors reinstall everything else as well).
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> Have'nt done this yet,but
> A little more info... what might "everything else" entail????
> I'm guessing you mean whatever dependency errors occur... 
> Thanks, Jack
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Correct. Whatever dependency errors arise (i.e. if aptitude uninstalls
GNOME or something, which it may very well do, I'm not sure) you'll need
to take note of (Perhaps copy/paste into a file?) and fix manually
afterwards.

Sometimes it takes some time to fully fix problems like this, so I'd
save aptitude purge for a last resort unless you're pretty comfortable
with what you're doing.

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