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Fiddling around GNOME session settings (System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Session) could completely screw up your desktop. This is exactly the thing I’ve experienced today after changing some settings there. Result was lock-up while loading desktop, and compiz loaded without window decorations. I did some googling, however, and found the solution.

Basically, all I’ve had to do was removing ~/.gnome2/session file totally out of there. Restart X, and voila – good old desktop back in the business! I’ve also found solution at Ubuntu Forums, but it didn’t work quite well for me. Just removing file helped. Good luck out there!

Since newest kernels was released (like 2.6.21 and above, AFAIR), all VMware users were threatened with broken networking in their virtual machines. In fact, that was a reason why I did not make any updates to my computer for quite a long time, as I use Windows-in-a-box a lot at work. However, I have finally found a minute to sort the problem out. (more…)