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I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 and I'm seeing a strange behaviour. All windows I open have a black, boxy border, including popups, as you can see in the provided image. (The black box in the bottom right is a terminal, which fails to display any text. However, I can enter commands and they execute.) I followed the steps in this post: How do I reset my Unity configuration? to reset Unity using the unity-tweak-tool. Although helpful, that did not fix the issue. I'm thinking this may be a graphics card driver issue.

Any help is much appreciated.

Black Borders, black terminal to the bottom right

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Eric
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I was able to fix the black borders in Ubuntu 13.10 with the commands below. Although I did not have problems with terminal not showing text.

Reset compiz settings:

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

Then restart Unity:

setsid unity

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Andrea Corbellini
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I had the same problem. I fixed it by installing Mir, following these instructions:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/Installing

I had to use XTerm because Terminal was all black.

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I had the same issue this is what I did:

To fix the large black borders bug in Ubuntu, open ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css (create the ~/.config/gtk-3.0 folder if it doesn't exist) with a text editor (I'll use Gedit below):

mkdir -p ~/.config/gtk-3.0
gedit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

and in this file, add the following:

.window-frame {
box-shadow: none;
margin: 1px;
}

This forces any theme you use to have a 1 pixel border. You can use any value you want - for instance, use "0" for borderless windows.

Then save the file and close all the applications affected by the black border bug (or you can log out and log back in), then try them again and you shouldn't see large black borders any more.

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