X11 restarts sometimes on window close when running metacity window manager
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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metacity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I am running gnome-session-
Sporadic, when I close a window (can be any application gvim, chrome, claws-mail, gedit, etc.) the whole X11 server goes down instant and I am eventually back at the login UI. Extremely counter productive.
If I revert metacity and metacity-common packages back to version 3.18.3-1ubuntu2, the behavior goes away.
Only change up to latest version 3.18.3-1ubuntu3 is
* Backport upstream change (add_window_
Which sounds a bit related IMHO.
I have not looked at the actual source code, both downloading the Ubuntu DEB package of version 3.18.3-1ubuntu2, or building it myself from sources works around the problem for me.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: metacity 1:3.18.3-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback
Date: Mon Apr 25 09:15:25 2016
SourcePackage: metacity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-30 (25 days ago)
This is fixed in Metacity 3.18.4, which is currently in SRU review queue.