Metacity dumping functionality - sessions needs cleared (was everything install)

[Jim Cornette]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
>Hi

Hello!
>>> All my windows launched end up stuck to the top of my screen and
>>> there is no way to switch to previously launched applications.
>>> The last application launched has focus. It appears there is no
>>> window manager. Metacity is the WM, GNOME is the desktop.
>> 
>> Is there a bug report on this? . This doesnt happen for me. Does it
>>  happen for anyone else at all?

Dumping ~/.metacity/sessions/* allows the metacity window manager to 
function again. Someone earlier posted that clering metacity sessions 
allowed functionality again to return for them. I decided to try that 
also, since there was no management for windowing programs.
  I noticed there were sessions recorded back to June were contained in 
the sessions before I cleared the sessions. Does metacity tidy up at all 
or keeps saving all sessions forever?

>> 
> 
> Yes it happens to me.  Firefox even crashes randomly. I use
> openoffice write and firefox at the same time one looses focus while
> the other one is open.  When firefox crashes I have to reopen it.
> 
> Until now, I have discovered a program called windows selector in
> gnome that lets me browse and switch between windows.  This program
> fixes that problem.

The window selector was installed in the panel. I believe if there is no 
window manager, there is nothing that the window selector can detect. I 
thought to try selecting the applet when the program first failed.

> 
> description: The Window Selector shows a list of all windows and lets
> you browse them.
> 
> 

I will have to try openoffice in conjunction with firefox to see if I 
see the problem you are having.

Back in GNOME, all panels as they were before the metacity 
overload/corruption.

Jim