For example, when a terminal was opened, there was not title bar and it was positioned at the top left of the computer screen. Same for FireFox. To make matters worse, neither could be moved around on the desktop.
After a few frantic hours randomly looking at Internet posts from others with a similar problem, I took a chance and downloaded this "compbiz" thing from Ubuntu. Once up and running, this "compbiz" eventually solved my problem.
Little to my knowledge, just about everything on the Unity desktop is configurable. Somehow I managed to mess up my configuration.
The "Window Management" section of "compiz" allows the Unity user to configure many window terminal settings. These include placement, default horizontal and vertical sizing (to name a few). This essentially saved the day and really needs to be in the software tool box for anyone using Ubuntu and Unity.
While it was in the "broke" status, one Internet post suggested to re-install Ubuntu. Yeah right, good idea. One other feature that "compiz" allows Ubuntu Unity enthusiasts is to size those little icon thing's (program launchers) on the left hand side of the computer screen. That was found to be really helpful.
In other news, I'm now on Ubuntu release 13.10. It was a seem-less download and installation process. Would you believe this is what my disk looks like.
frank@HP-2000:~$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 476783624 9987184 442554164 3% /
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1805636 4 1805632 1% /dev
tmpfs 363144 1136 362008 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 1815712 156 1815556 1% /run/shm
none 102400 40 102360 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 94759 3360 91400 4% /boot/efi
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