Metacity and Compiz fight to be "compositing manager"
Bug #231904 reported by
CatKiller
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #178953: Cannot switch to Compiz if Metacity compositor is enabled.
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Metacity |
In Progress
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Unknown
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control-center (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
metacity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
If the GConf key /apps/metacity/
The error message when the process fails is
/usr/bin/
/usr/bin/
Discovered in Hardy.
Changed in metacity: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in control-center: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in metacity: | |
status: | Unknown → In Progress |
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Yep, confirmed. This one hit me too.
Once I disabled /apps/metacity/ general/ compositing_ manager I could, once again, enable Compiz.
Running with the latest hardy-proposed (not hardy-backports) on a cheap Lenovo ThinkPad T61 (6646-5WG) with Intel 965GM chipset.