Bug#553343: gnome-session: after upgrading, something continuously sends data to gconfd making it occupy 100% of the CPU

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 02 novembre 2009 à 17:45 +0000, Vasilis Vasaitis a écrit : 
> > Where do you set it? It should work.
> 
>   Ok, this is weird. I tried setting WINDOW_MANAGER both through my
> .xsession, and through /etc/environment.

Use .gnomerc or .xsessionrc instead.

> > > I also tried setting
> > > /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager and
> > > /apps/gnome-session/rh/window_manager to "compiz" (anything that
> > > seemed relevant, basically), again with no effect. Any suggestions?

> X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager

This should work as well then. But it will not if you have saved a
session including another window manager, of course.

> > I’ll consider re-adding compiz to the list of default WMs (before
> > metacity, that is) but frankly I’m not sure. GNOME upstreams have
> > completely abandoned the idea to do anything correct with compiz, and
> > development now focuses on mutter.
> 
>   I don't know, as long as there's a way to configure the window
> manager that GNOME uses, I'm happy. Ideally it would be a nice GUI
> dialog, but I'll take what I can get.

This is completely out of the scope of GNOME. A window manager is just a
tool to manage windows, it shouldn’t need more than a handful of
configuration options.


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