That wasn't so bad... I restarted, chose awesome from the environment menu option list at the bottom of the login screen - that produced awesome, but no gnome, so I restarted, chose Ubuntu Classic - (not the "no effects" choice).
Note: I also set awesome as my window manager again with gconf in the midst of all that: https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome_with_Gnome Hope this helps! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/731329 Title: Broken upgrade to Natty: no Awesome WM because of Compiz/Metacity autostart -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs