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

[Vasilis Vasaitis]

retitle 553343 gnome-session: none of the methods provided for configuring an alternative window manager appear to work
thanks

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:09:11AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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.

  With .xsessionrc: same effect (the variable is set but does not take
effect during GNOME startup). With .gnomerc: the variable is not set
at all.

> > > > 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.

  Well, it doesn't (I just tried again). I also tried removing
'windowmanager' from /desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list,
again no effect.

> >   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.

  Well, I don't know, GNOME already has a way to manage which programs
are started on startup (the gnome-session properties), and it used to
be the case that one could configure the window manager in there too.
So I guess this isn't really about the configurability of the window
manager (I agree with you on the above), but of gnome-session.

Thanks,
Vasilis

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Vasilis Vasaitis
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