[mythtv-users] Backend window manager messed up

[Damian]

On 08/03/2015 20:28, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>
> On 3/8/15 4:06 PM, Damian wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm running MythBuntu on my home server's backend. The server is in
>> the garage and I access it via primarily via VNC.
>>
>> For a few weeks now, the window manager (Xfce) has been messed up.
>> When I log into VNC, it looks 'kind of' like it usually does, but
>> there's no visible panel at the top (although I think that's just
>> because other windows are in front of it rather than below it) and the
>> other windows on screen (Firefox, SpiderOak, TeamViewer etc) don't
>> have a top bar. The bar that you use to move, close, maximise and
>> minimise a window. Those top bars are simply not there.
>>
>> Most things seem to be working ok with the server. The MythTV backend
>> is functioning fine. My music server (Logitec Media Server) is working
>> fine. I seem to remember that Dropbox stopped working, for some
>> reason, a week or two before this problem started, but I didn't worry
>> too much about that.
>>
>> So, it's household function is 'OK', but I can't do anything else on
>> the machine because the GUI is messed up.
>>
>> Do you lovely people have any idea how to fix this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Damian
>> _______________________________________________
> Which release of MythBuntu are you using on the BE?
Hi Stephen,

$ lsb_release -a
returns ...
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty


$ apt-cache policy mythtv
returns ...
mythtv:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 2:0.27.4+fixes.20150305.f1115fc-0ubuntu0mythbuntu3
   Version table:
      2:0.27.4+fixes.20150305.f1115fc-0ubuntu0mythbuntu3 0
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.27/ubuntu/ trusty/main 
amd64 Packages
      2:0.27.0+fixes.20140324.8ee257c-0ubuntu3 0
         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ 
trusty-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages
      2:0.27.0+fixes.20140324.8ee257c-0ubuntu2 0
         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse 
amd64 Packages