missing window decorations with openoffice windows

[Richard van der Hoff]

Vincent Groenewold wrote:
>  
> It sounds to me as a failing xfdesktop. Perhaps, again, by not correctly 
> upgrading xfce to 4.4. I had the same when I was correcting my upgrade 
> step by step. What you could try is to manually start xfdesktop (just in 
> xterm), then logout of xfce without stopping xfdesktop. It's also 
> possible that xfdesktop works, but isn't auto-started because of an 
> earlier saved configuration in which xfdesktop wasn't started either.

Hrm, I don't quite understand this... what does xfdesktop have to do 
with window decorations?

I don't normally run xfdesktop... I can never see my root window anyway :).

I started it from an xterm, but it didn't seem to help my problem... are 
you suggesting that it needs to be running before xfwm etc?

> Cool, a failing upgrade gives quite a bit of UI understanding. :) 

Uh... glad to be of service, I think :)

Thanks for your help!

Richard