Strange X behavior in 20060812 rawhide

Jay Cliburn jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Sat Aug 12 15:05:48 UTC 2006


Jay Cliburn wrote:
> I'm seeing unusual behavior in X/gnome after today's update.
> 
> 1.  The desktop switcher is gone from my default gnome session, now
> replaced by a new trash can.  (This may be a feature of the new 
> gnome-theme, perhaps.)
> 
> 2.  After a reboot and a fresh login to X, things look pretty much
> normal on the desktop, but whenever I launch a gnome-terminal, 
> all window decorations disappear and the launched terminal is 
> anchored and immovable in the upper left corner of the display.
> Subsequent gnome-term launches overlay the previous instance in
> the same location. It's as if the window manager stops running.  
> Starting metacity manually returns the desktop to normal.
> 
> 3.  Thunderbird disappears.  It's still running, but the window is
> no longer displayed.  Upon logout, the window flashes briefly. 
> 
> 4.  There are no clues in syslog or Xlog.  :( 
> 
> 5.  Is this one of those instances where removing all gconf stuff
> in $HOME is called for? 
> 

I moved $HOME/.gconf{d} out of the way and my desktop defaults have 
returned to normal (show desktop app, window list app, desktop switcher 
app are present), however metacity psuedo-death still occurs upon first 
launch of gnome-terminal.




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