Re: Update 4 Metacity Changes

["Lee Whatley, Contractor" <lwhatley ctr navo hpc mil>]

As an update to my own question, it looks like this is already being 
looked at. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128303

In addition to the problems listed in the above URL, I wasn't able to 
find the strict_pointer_mode key in gconf-editor because I couldn't read
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/metacity/rhel3_workarounds.  It looks 
like I couldn't read this file because up2date used my umask (037) when 
installing that file instead of getting it's file permissions from the 
rpm.  This umask issue was also a problem with some files in /etc/pango 
and was also noted in bugzilla.

-Lee

Lee Whatley, Contractor wrote:
> In the metacity package for update 4 (RHBA-2004:531), the option for 
> "strict_pointer_mode" was added and enabled by default.  I would like to 
> disable this option, but I can't find where to do this.  Digging through 
> the preferences menu and using gconf-editor turned up nothing.  Also a 
> google search turned up only one hit and it was for the Redhat Errata 
> page (which has no explanation of where that option is set).
>
> Has anyone figured out how to disable this option?
>
> Thanks,
> -Lee