Bug#443933: metacity incorrectly positions xterms

[Russ Allbery]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.20.0-1
Severity: normal

Since the recent upgrade to Gnome 2.20, when I start my Gnome session,
all of my xterms end up stacked on top of each other in the top left
corner of each desktop they're supposed to be on.  For some reason,
the session information in the metacity session is not being correctly
honored.

However, and this is the very weird thing, if after logging in I then
kill metacity and let Gnome respawn it, the respawned metacity fixes
the position of all of the windows correctly.

I tried changing the order of metacity in the session to start after
the xterms (currently metacity is order 20 and the xterms are all order
50), but that resulted in weird errors and didn't change anything,
probably because I didn't know what I'm doing.

Please let me know if you need more information.  I'm *very* new to
using Gnome and this is the first non-trivial problem that I've had
with it, so I'm not quite sure what information you need.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.20.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.6.1-5      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                   1.4.10-1     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.20.0-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.1-3     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.12.0-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.4-1    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmetacity0                1:2.20.0-1   library of lightweight GTK2 based 
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.18.2-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                      2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.9-1        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.3-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                 1:1.1.9-1    X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                    1:1.0.3-2    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1                1:1.0.2-1    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                  2:1.2.2-1    X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.4-1    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  metacity-common             1:2.20.0-1   Shared files of lightweight GTK2 b

metacity recommends no packages.

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