fun with metacity segfaults on rawhide eeepc

[Peter Robinson]

>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >> is it possible to change WM from the command line though? gconf or something?
>> > Just run desktop-effects and click the enable button.
>>
>> I can't as I don't get a desktop because metacity keeps segfaulting.
>
> There's probably more than just metacity crashing, otherwise the desktop
> would still be coming up. Might be the new gnome-session being a bit too
> bent on getting the window manager running and not throttling the
> launches.

That sounds like it could be possible as playing over the weekend I
found it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't

Peter