Bug#490024: metacity: compositing: sometimes gnome-panel drop shadow is missing

[Jon Dowland]

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

I'm using metacity with compositing turned on and I've got
quite attached to the drop shadows. For some reason,
gnome-panel doesn't have one, in certain situations. This
has happened to me on three machines and it seems like a
bit of an odd bug.

Usually it has it at first and loses it at some later point
in my session.

I've just closed tracker, xchat and pidgin, and tried
hupping gnome-panel to get it back, no luck. HUPping
metacity *did* bring it back.

I'm wondering if one of the panel applets is providing a
hint that results in metacity not drop-shadowing it. I
shall keep an eye on what I'm running and see what might
provoke it into disappearing again.


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.22.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.7-12     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.6.4-6    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.22.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.3-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.12.10-2  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                 1.20.2-2   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.0.3-2  X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0      0.9-1      library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.1.4-2  X11 client-side library
ii  libxcomposite1                1:0.4.0-3  X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxcursor1                   1:1.1.9-1  X cursor management library
ii  libxdamage1                   1:1.1.1-4  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                  2:1.0.3-2  X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                    2:1.2.2-2  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.4-2  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 2.22.2-1   The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  openbox [x-session-manager]   3.4.7.2-2  standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii  xfce4-session [x-session-mana 4.4.2-6    Xfce4 Session Manager

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Jon Dowland
ISS UNIX Team