Metacity dumping functionality - sessions needs cleared (was everything install)
Jim Cornette
fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Feb 25 02:58:41 UTC 2006
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
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