If you use BackBox, uninstall metacity and try to delete ~/.cache/sessions. Assuming you still have xfwm4 installed.
Jussi On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahti...@gmail.com> wrote: > John, not to offense, but your messages are mess. What is your distro, > Ubuntu or BackBox? Why metacity?? Neither of them uses metacity. > > > Jussi > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:51 PM, John Leake <jle...@socit.co.uk> wrote: > >> >>> Some of the symptoms >> >>> -------------------- >> >>> >> >>> (1) System wide keyboard short cuts all fucked up. >> >>> (2) No Window decoration. >> >>> (3) Window layering, focus, bring to top - knackered. >> >>> (4) Default position on window launch not what it used to be. >> >>> (5) Thunderbird text menus not working. >> >> (6) Firefox text menus not working >> >> (7) Right Click context menus not working >> >> (8) Desktop Panels not on top >> >> >> >> What I have tried without success >> >> --------------------------------- >> >> sudo apt-get purge gambas >> >> sudo apt-get autoremove >> >> BackBox restore desktop >> >> Lots of reboots because the windows eventually fill the whole screen >> and >> >> the top one is the last program launched. >> > Removing all the gambas repos and updating and rebooting >> > rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity >> > >> >> >> >> Some of my ideas >> >> ---------------- >> >> Fucked up (sorry incompatible) graphics libraries. >> >> >> What seemed to help >> ------------------- >> sudo apt-get install metacity - this gave be back window focus and bring >> to top as well as window decoration (although ugly/basic) and context >> menus, keyboard short cuts, and working firefox/thunderbird text menus. >> >> Can anyone explain what might have happened ? >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Want excitement? >> Manually upgrade your production database. >> When you want reliability, choose Perforce >> Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Gambas-user mailing list >> Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user