Metaciy Compositing Panel Shadow (intrepid)

[John McHugh]

Binary package hint: metacity

When You enable Metacity compositing in the gconf-editor the gnome panel gains a nice shadow.. When you restart Ubuntu the composited shadow disappears until you disable and then re-enable Metacity Compositing in the gconf-editor.
The graphics driver I am using is Vesa.
This bug was present in hardy and it is still present in intrepid.

[peter76 (pf-moll)]

Having the same thing running Intrepid in Virtual Box

[Rémi Prévost (remiprev)]

I'm having the same problem in Intrepid but not in Hardy.

[Marnanel Thurman (marnanel)]

Can you reproduce the problem and then tell me what "gconftool -g /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager" prints? Thanks.

[Rémi Prévost (remiprev)]

*true*

Also, like reloading metacity, disabling and re-enabling the "compositing_manager" option also fix the problem.

[peter76 (pf-moll)]

@Thomas: your command outputs true; the problem is only with the shadow around the panel; not around windows or anything. Funny little bug:-)

[Rémi Prévost (remiprev)]

Also, it affects newly created panels (they don't get any shadow until metacity is reloaded or the option is disabled and enabled again).

[hairy_Palms (mm294)]

confirmed with intrepid fresh install, i wrote a script that sets and unsets the gconf option at startup as a workaround, not

[rww (rww-deactivatedaccount)]

This is also happening in Jaunty. Confirming bug and adding link to upstream bug report.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for adding the upstream task, this is not a blocker for jaunty though rejecting the nomination.

[FERNmann (fernmann-deactivatedaccount)]

I am also experiencing this Problem on Lucid(!).

[John Doe (jodo-deactivatedaccount)]

Same here on Lucid, too.

[Andrea Plati (echoes91)]

The problem persists with Ubuntu 11.04 Natty (metacity 2.30.3)

[Nathan Dane (noz3001)]

Happens in Ubuntu 11.04, classic desktop using metacity.
I made a workaround for this by writing a small script and adding it to gnome-session-properties with --replace parameter

#!/bin/bash
sleep 1 # Let gnome-panel have 1 second to register
metacity $* &