Comment 1 for bug 255475

I encountered a similar problem to what Diego described above. I assigned 5 global_keybindings for Metacity via gconf-editor. 2 of the keybindings launch their assigned programs beautifully, but 3 of the keybindings will only launch their assigned programs after I run the "metacity --replace" command. (Running the "metacity --replace" command is problematic itself though because it hangs that terminal tab and never returns the command-line prompt in that tab, and aborting that terminal tab crashes Metacity.)