Bug#230151: occasional metacity SEGV on workspace change

[Sebastien Bacher]

Chad Miller <cmiller@debian.org> writes:

> If you exec your window manager at the end of your .xinitrc, as so many
> people do, and your window manager SEGVs, then X closes and kills all of
> your running X clients, regardless of running state.

You are running metacity alone ? I was thinking that metacity was not
usuable alone ... no menu, no icon ...  

> I'm pretty sure that potential for data loss gets a grave severity,
> even if it doesn't affect every user.

If you can run metacity alone yes ...


> You're relying on functionality of another package to mitigate the
> severity of a metacity bug.  Not everyone is doing that; if metacity
> ever Depends on (or Recommends or even Suggests) package gnome-session,
> it might be justifiable.

I think that 99.9% of the users run it with gnome. Are you really using
it without anything else to manage some menus, icons, panels or anything
?


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher