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[SOLVED] Window Borders/Controls Missing After Updating

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[SOLVED] Window Borders/Controls Missing After Updating

Post by lehnerus2000 » Fri Jun 14, 2019 9:34 am

My SSD died.
SSDs are so unreliable, I haven’t had one last 3 years in my main PC (this one was

I’m dual booting Windows 7 & LM19.1 MATE (both 64 bit).
I re-imaged the new SSD with my backup image, however whilst W7 worked LM19.1 was broken.
I couldn’t use the Advanced Recovery Options as a message would appear and overwrite the options so nothing could be selected from the list.

I was forced to reinstall LM19.1 MATE (64 bit).

After the install was complete, I ran the «Update Manager».
When I rebooted my PC, the GRUB menu showed «Ubuntu» instead of «Linux Mint» in the boot options.

After I logged in I discovered that all of my windows had lost their borders/controls!
When I went to the Control Centre and clicked on the «Windows» option in the «Look & Feel» section, I got a message stating «Unsupported Window Manager».

I’m using the default graphic driver (not the NVidia driver).

I used the «Timeshift» tool to restore my install, and after rebooting the window borders/controls returned (as expected).

Now I am reluctant to run the Update Manager again in case the problem recurs.
Which packages should I disable in the Update Manger to prevent this from happening again?

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In the late octobers, maybe 25-30, I updated. Then later, I rebooted. I opened up my home folder from the desktop icon to find a borderless window jammed up in the top left corner.

Anyways, I’ve been updating and rebooting every day or so in the hopes that the problem will go away. It hasn’t.

Specs on my system: I’m using LMDE XFCE 64 bit on a Dell Inspiron 1525 that I got for free. My aunt and uncle gave it to my stepfather to dispose of because they thought it was broken. I replaced the faulty power cable and vista (factory faulty) and got what is the most powerful computer in my (poor) house. It’s dual core CPU running at 2GHz, 3GB RAM, and some uninspired intel graphics chip.

Specs on myself: I’ve been using Linux since a few years back in Ubuntu 8.04 . I’ve migrated around extensively. My main OS previously (and maybe still is) is Arch Linux on my netbook. I’ve gotten quite used to the terminal and the no-nonsense configuration. I picked it out because it is light, has a rolling release, and has up to date packages. I suggest Linux Mint as a first Linux OS to people I try to «convert» to open source users. When I got this computer, I had not yet chosen an OS to put on there. While I love Arch, it takes me quite a while to tweak it perfectly. So I looked back to Mint. I had known about LMDE for awhile (yes, I keep tabs on other distros). I tried running a Live version. To my pleasant surprise, I found it looked quite like normal Mint, and it had recent (enough) packages. Anyways, it was what I needed. However, I’m not as good at configuring Debian distros. I do all sorts of crazy things on my OSes as well. Like messing with tracking the makehuman nightly repo and compiling libraries, etc. Anyways, this could somehow be my fault and I don’t realize it.

Anyways, I have tried to think of ways to fix this. In the end, there is always reinstallation of the OS. The way that I thought might work without total reinstallation is to reinstall only XFCE. I’m worried this will make it have default XFCE looks instead of Minty looks.

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Re: Window borders missing.

Post by sagirfahmid3 » Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:27 am

Window borders are missing because for some reason the window manager stopped working.
First, read this post, this might be your problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=564394
It has been solved. Look at the very last post.

If the above method doesn’t work, then do this:
1.Open terminal>»gksu pcmanfm»>browse to /etc/xdg/autostart/
2.Make a new file in this folder.
3.Edit the empty file with Gedit or Leafpad or whatever text editor you have.
4.Copy and paste this whole thing:

[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=xfwm4 Comment=xfwm4 Exec=xfwm4 Terminal=false Type=Application OnlyShowIn=XFCE;

5.Click on File>Save As>»xfwm4.desktop»
6.Logout and log back in, and it should work.

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[SOLVED] window borders missing

Post by dexl » Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:12 am

Hello,
I have made a mistake of uninstalling the package remastersys and remastersys-gui along with (I presume) some dependencies that broke my Mate WM, I’m on LM13 Mate. The title bars of every application window are gone and I cannot switch between open windows as they do not appear on the bottom panel. Besides that, it is sometimes impossible to use the typing keyboard as nothing is working.

What I have tried so far:
— reinstalled mate-desktop in Package Manager
— looked at logs in /var/log/apt/history.log and var/log/apt/term.log to find any uninstalled packages that might have corrupted my window manager and installed them back
— Terminal command: metacity —replace, but it gives me funny (very basic) window borders, not the ones that are by default in Mate and as soon as the Terminal closes I lose all the borders.

I don’t know what else I could try to get back the window borders. What is the package name responsible for them? Could anyone offer help? Thanks.

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[SOLVED] Window list borders missing in Mint 19

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[SOLVED] Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by linux_man » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:18 am

All windows are next to each other without borders. This is extremely annoying bug or is it a new «feature»?
How to get the borders back? I tried to look mate-applications.css theme file without luck.

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Re: Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by J-Philippe » Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:28 am

I had the same problem. There is no separation between windows for me too. As I have few windows open it is lisible. But with many windows no easy at all to read.
I tried to solve le problem with two lines : 1 for windows and 1 for icons

Re: Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by linux_man » Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:52 am

Thanks for the confirmation, this bug does affect other people as well. I will probably make a bug report, this problem is quite disturbing.

Re: Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by linux_man » Sat Jul 07, 2018 6:12 am

Re: Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by J-Philippe » Sat Jul 07, 2018 6:15 am

Good new. Thanks to devs.
But for now I don’t see any difference. Is-there something to reload or waiting for an update ?

Re: Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by linux_man » Sat Jul 07, 2018 6:17 am

J-Philippe wrote: ⤴ Sat Jul 07, 2018 6:15 am Good new. Thanks to devs.
But for now I don’t see any difference. Is-there something to reload or waiting for an update ?

Re: [SOLVED] Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by J-Philippe » Sat Jul 07, 2018 6:46 am

I did in my /home/srk/.themes/Mint-X/gtk-3.0/apps
Then I reboot. But I have no difference except the tab gains relief only when I am over it. But I don’t remember how it was before

Re: [SOLVED] Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by linux_man » Sat Jul 07, 2018 11:56 am

J-Philippe wrote: ⤴ Sat Jul 07, 2018 6:46 am I did in my /home/srk/.themes/Mint-X/gtk-3.0/apps
Then I reboot. But I have no difference except the tab gains relief only when I am over it. But I don’t remember how it was before

Perhaps you don’t have all necessary files in the theme folder (I didn’t have either a few days ago, I thought borders were missing because of them).
Download https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-theme . ers/button these files and put them into gtk-3.0/borders/button. There should be only «focus» button files before, and I think that’s not right.
At least this way I have got all window list items working.

Re: [SOLVED] Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by JosephM » Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:43 pm

The four additional images you need to make this work are the ones shown here: https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-theme . ers/button

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Re: [SOLVED] Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by J-Philippe » Sat Jul 07, 2018 1:18 pm

I created borders/button directory in my home/.themes.Mint-X/gtk-3.0 directory. Is it here that I have to do ?
I can’t reboot or relaunch session for now (because I have a great transfer running) but nothing has changed at this time.

Re: [SOLVED] Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by linux_man » Sat Jul 07, 2018 3:01 pm

J-Philippe wrote: ⤴ Sat Jul 07, 2018 1:18 pm I created borders/button directory in my home/.themes.Mint-X/gtk-3.0 directory. Is it here that I have to do ?
I can’t reboot or relaunch session for now (because I have a great transfer running) but nothing has changed at this time.

Re: [SOLVED] Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by J-Philippe » Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:51 pm

I have exactly the same files in this repertory. And no separation between windows tabs.
But anyway, I can live with that
Thank’s for your help.

Re: [SOLVED] Window list borders missing in Mint 19

Post by JosephM » Tue Jul 17, 2018 2:02 pm

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