Just got back my Compaq V3000 laptop from the dealer. Its a little over 2 years old, but it has been sent back for mother board replacement for the 3rd time! (glad that I had the extended warranty period to 3 years)

Figure that I can put Ubuntu 8.10 on it while waiting for 9.04 to come alone in about two weeks time.

Installation went well, NVidia (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-96.43.11-pkg2.run) driver seems to install properly as well.

Reboot and damn! Wher’s my window title bar? and also the Terminal windows is un readable as well. Turning off the visual effect seems to give me back the title bar, but that’s not the solution.

For the next 5 hours is frantic googling for solutions, and it really is funny that so many had the same problem, and offered bloody lot of suggestion that is not working, until came along this article Ubuntu Desktop Effects – Fixing the missing titlebar and it hit the right spot. Just these two lines in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf under the ‘Section “Device”‘:

Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

: )