window manager config tool missing

[Steven]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Gnome-window-properties gives an error message saying "Window manager "compiz" has not registered a configuration tool".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-17.23-generic 2.6.35.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-17-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 22 13:31:57 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-window-properties
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Steven (aegir64)]

On 23 August 2010 12:06, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. Please answer these questions:
>
> * Is this reproducible?
>
Yes.

> * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
>
Either from the menu System > Preferences > Windows or running
gnome-window-properties from the command line. Both ways I always get a
popup window with the compiz message.

This seems to be 10.10 specific, perhaps the package is incomplete or
misconfigured.

Thanks in advance for sorting this out.

Best wishes,
Steven

>
> This will help us to find and resolve the problem.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> window manager config tool missing
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/622195
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> Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
>
> Gnome-window-properties gives an error message saying "Window manager
> "compiz" has not registered a configuration tool".
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-1ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-17.23-generic 2.6.35.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-17-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Aug 22 13:31:57 2010
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-window-properties
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386
> (20100803.1)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
>
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[Steven (aegir64)]

It now transpires that there exists a separate package compizconfig-settings-manager. It was not installed automatically when I upgraded to Maverick alpha3. When I installed it manually, it received its own menu entry in System > Preferences > CompizConfig Settings Manager, and the System > Preferences > Windows entry remained void. So I think it is just a matter of tidying packages up for the new Ubuntu Maverick release and other releases that include Compiz.

Hope this helps,
Steven.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This is a packaging error in compiz (/usr/share/gnome/wm-properties/compiz.desktop/compiz-wm.desktop needs to be in /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties/compiz-wm.desktop instead)

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Uploaded to maverick now, but it's sat in the queue for beta freeze

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.8.6-0ubuntu5

---------------
compiz (1:0.8.6-0ubuntu5) maverick; urgency=low

  * Fix LP: #622195 - dh_install can't rename files. In trying to do so,
    compiz-wm.desktop is installed one folder too deep, breaking
    gnome-{appearance,window}-properties
    - update debian/compiz-gnome.install
 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:33:53 +0100