Bug#476386: metacity: Window placement of gnome-terminals not respected from saved session

[Manuel Bilderbeek]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.22.0-1
Severity: normal

After logging in on a clean desktop, spawning a few gnome-terminals and
saving my session, I see the following things happening.

In ~/.gnome2/session gnome-terminal shows up:

2,RestartCommand=gnome-terminal --sm-config-prefix /gnome-terminal-5L7Tu9/ --sm-client-id 1186bcabc4000120654706300000036850013 --screen 0 --window-with-profile-internal-id=Default --hide-menubar --role=gnome-terminal-31523--1005079979-1206547064 --active --geometry 80x57+855+25 --title bilm at ws042498-linux:\\ ~ --working-directory /home/bilm --zoom 1 --window-with-profile-internal-id=Default --hide-menubar --role=gnome-terminal-31523-2109864045-1206547065 --active --geometry 80x30+1600+599 --title bilm at ws042498-linux:\\ ~ --working-directory /home/bilm --zoom 1 --window-with-profile-internal-id=Default --hide-menubar --role=gnome-terminal-31523-229941220-1206547065 --active --geometry 80x30+1600+0 --title bilm at ws042498-linux:\\ ~ --working-directory /home/bilm --zoom 1 

Notice the geometry options. They reflect the geometry and placement I
intended.

However, when logging in, I see random behaviour. Sometimes the windows
appear at the proper position with the proper size, but shortly after
that, they get resized to default sizes or placed to the wrong position
(often the top left corner of the screen). Sometimes they just get
placed directly at the wrong position and often with the wrong size. It
seems there is some race condition somewhere....

Anyway, this is very annoying. After each login I still have to manually
arrange my gnome-terminals... saving my session was meant to avoid that.

This behaviour started around when GNOME 2.20 got in testing. I've seen
it on several other Debian systems as well.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (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                       2.7-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                   1.4.14-1     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.22.0-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.16.1-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.12.9-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.4-1    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmetacity0                1:2.22.0-1   library of lightweight GTK2 based 
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.20.0-1     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  libxcomposite1              1:0.4.0-1    X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxcursor1                 1:1.1.9-1    X cursor management library
ii  libxdamage1                 1:1.1.1-3    X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6                    2:1.0.4-1    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                  1:4.0.3-2    X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxinerama1                2:1.0.3-1    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             1:2.22.0-1   Shared files of lightweight GTK2 b

Versions of packages metacity recommends:
ii  gnome-session [x-session-mana 2.20.3-2   The GNOME 2 Session Manager

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