Ubuntu
gnome-session package

gnome-wm.desktop missing (metacity is started instead of compiz)

Bug #256849 reported by Tormod Volden
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-session

I am not sure how this is supposed to work, or if everything is in flux. However, when booting the current daily-live, metacity is started and not compiz. If I run "gnome-wm" on the command line, compiz starts.

Looking at gconf values, I see that "metacity" is part of /desktop/gnome/session/default-session. I thought this should be gnome-wm, since gnome-wm will start either compiz or metacity on basis of capabilities and my preferences. But just replacing metacity with gnome-wm in this gconf key won't work, since it will need a corresponding desktop file. There is a metacity.desktop and a compiz.desktop, but no gnome-wm.desktop. So I think there should be gnome-wm.desktop shipped in the gnome-session package.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in gnome-session:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Invalid
Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)
description: updated
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