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sanjaychak01

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Registered: 2020-03-30

Posts: 3

Window top bar has gone + other effects

While playing with the Window Manager settings, I must have clicked a wrong option. Now the following things are happening:

1. The Window bar of the windows has vanished. So I do not see the window title. min/max/close buttons are also absent since the bar itself is not there.
2. When I run an application, the previous window minimises automatically. That is, there is always one window on the screen, others are all minimised.

I wonder what I did wrong! Can anyone help?

Warm Regards
Sanjay
Manjaro Linux 19.0.2

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,488

Re: Window top bar has gone + other effects

Sounds like xfwm4 stopped running. Try starting it up again by running:

xfwm4 --replace

...in a terminal window.

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sanjaychak01

Member

Registered: 2020-03-30

Posts: 3

Re: Window top bar has gone + other effects

I created a dummy user, and when I logged in, it was behaving properly. I compared the WM settings for both accounts. It seems the following option was creating the problem:

Opacity of Inactive Windows

It was set to transparent, resulting in all unfocussed windows vanishing and the title bar of the active window also being absent!

Thanks for your tip, ToZ. If the above had not worked, your tip would be the last resort indeed!

Regards
Sanjay