What is the content of ~/.xinitrc on your system? Mine for gnome (I suspect it broke yours): eastein@glamdring:/home/eastein$ cat .xinitrc #!/bin/sh gnome-session Eric Bruce Linnell wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm running openSuSE 10.2, and decided I wanted to try some of the 3D Desktop effects. So I tried activating them through the YaST control panel. Now not only do I not have 3D effects, I seem to have lost my window manager as well. I can open apps and applets, utilities and folders, but none have a title bar to grab for moving the window, and none have the max, min, and close buttons, and if it doesn't have a close or quit option in a drop down menu, I can't close it (them).
So I end up with a screen full of unmoveable, unresizeable, and in some cases, uncloseable windows. It reminds me of an old steamer trunk with decals plastered all over it.
The boot screen only shows 2 icons just prior to opening the desktop: the desktop icon, and the Gnome footprint icon. The double window icon is no longer there.
Booting as root is normal with all 3 icons in the splash screen, and full window(s) functionality. So this problem seems contained to my user account.
I'm hopeful that restoring the window manager will also let me configure the 3D effects, but if not, I'd like to get back to normal. Any suggestions?
Bruce
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