Mint 20: disappearing window decorations (MATE)
Hi everyone Since a few weeks, I've been getting these random events where all my window decorations are disappearing and I basically have to restart my X session. This happens under Linux Mint 20, MATE edition. Looking through systemd journals, I noticed core dumps and I ran the following command to just list core dumps: sudo coredumpctl list I noticed that "/usr/bin/marco" (the MATE window manager) was causing some of the crashes. After a bit of duckduckgoing, I came across some posts on the Mint forums that mention a bug in marco 1.24, which apparently got fixed in 1.24.1: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=354845 And I'm running indeed that version of the window manager ("dpkg -l | grep marco"): 1.24.0-1ubuntu1 One suggestion was to switch from "marco+compositing" to "metacity+compositing", which I'm trialing now (Control Center -> Desktop settings -> Windows -> Window manager). Maybe this will help other people experiencing this issue... :-) Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 (office) +64 (7) 577-5304 (home office) https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 17:57:49 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
Since a few weeks, I've been getting these random events where all my window decorations are disappearing and I basically have to restart my X session.
If it’s a window manager problem, you should be able to fix it by killing and restarting your window manager. Saves logging out your entire GUI session. This has sometimes worked for me. ;)
Since a few weeks, I've been getting these random events where all my window decorations are disappearing and I basically have to restart my X session.
If it’s a window manager problem, you should be able to fix it by killing and restarting your window manager. Saves logging out your entire GUI session.
Here is a rundown of the commands (if you can still get into a terminal) for MATE: https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/fix-a-frozen-mate-linux-desk... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 (office) +64 (7) 577-5304 (home office) https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 17:09:56 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
Here is a rundown of the commands (if you can still get into a terminal) for MATE: https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/fix-a-frozen-mate-linux-desk...
Looks useful, but I would take issue with putting a custom script in /usr/bin. Put it in /usr/local/bin instead. Keep your system tidy. Also, some further tips that are independent of the particular GUI you are using: * If the GUI is completely hung, but as long as the X server itself is still responding, you can hit CTRL-ALT-Fn (n = 2, 3 ...) to switch to a text console and log in there. It’s not as nice as a GUI terminal emulator, but you can still use it to run shell commands. * If even that doesn’t work, you could always SSH in from another machine ...
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