Bug#542841: gnome-core: alternative depends on compiz-gnome (metacity | compiz-gnome) causes compiz to be effective default

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

William Pitcock wrote:
> Package: gnome-core
> Version: 1:2.26+0
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Compiz is being installed by gnome-core, and forcing itself as default WM.  Metacity
> performs better on my system than Compiz does.
> 
> It would be nice if Compiz was a suggested package instead of an alternate
> dependency, so that metacity will always be installed by default, and if the
> user wants Compiz, then they can get it themselves.
> 
> Alternatively please adjust the way GNOME determines the default WM, and at the same
> time make it where both metacity and compiz are always installed.  For example, on
> Foresight Linux, you have to check a box to make GNOME launch compiz instead of
> metacity, and I think an option like that is also appropriate for Debian.

If metacity is the first alternative, it should be installed before compiz. Can
you investigate what pulls compiz in?

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