XFCE: lost window decorations

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XFCE: lost window decorations

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[PROBLEM]
On notebook of a friend of mine, the window decorations of his Xubuntu Hardy installation suddenly had gone. completely. You could open any application without problems - but you could not move or resize the windows.

[SOLUTION]
I was quite puzzled, and I still don't know how this happened, but thanks to an entry called "xcfe lost window decorations" on the ubuntuforums, I found out that it's the windows manager which isn't running.

In XFCE's case that's "xfwm".

So just open a shell and start the window manager again:

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$ xfwm4 --daemon
Then the window decorations suddenly appear (no restart necessary) and everything's back to normal. :)
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