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avant-window-navigator package

  1. Bug #359061
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 359061

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qetuR (petur-hjartarson) wrote :

Had the same problem, and should it not be enough to just try to fix the compositing manager?

If you run Gnome, your default window-manager is Metacity, right? On this link: http://wiki.awn-project.org/Installation#Installing_Avant_Window_Navigator I found a fix for Metacity.

"Metacity: The default window manager for Gnome. Compositing support was started for this WM in November 2003 (around version 2.7.0), but it has never been very stable. Because of this, it is not enabled in most distributions. Recently though, work started on a new implementation for compositing support that is in version 2.22.0 (and later). To enable the compositing manager, you need to use the "Configuration Editor", AKA gconf-editor, to set the key /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager to true (i.e., the box must be checked). "