Bug#553417: when turning of composite_manager in gconf the whole display freezes

Will Thompson will.thompson at collabora.co.uk
Mon Nov 16 11:45:14 UTC 2009


Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.28.0-2
Severity: normal

This is because gnome-wm chooses mutter over metacity if direct
rendering is supported. I don't think this is a good choice. As I
understand it, mutter is not really meant to be used in its own right;
moreover, if you're using an Intel graphics chip without kernel
mode-setting enabled, Mutter draws approximately one frame per second
(due to a Clutter bug, I believe).

I'm aware that I can set
/desktop/gnome/session/required_component/windowmanager to 'metacity' to
avoid this, but I shouldn't need to mess around with that just because I
tried out Gnome Shell for a couple of days.

(Note that if I didn't know how to work around this, my computer would
be unusable.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (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/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-panel         2.28.0-2             launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gnome-session-bin   2.28.0-2             The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii  gnome-settings-daem 2.28.1-1             daemon handling the GNOME session 
ii  mesa-utils          7.6-1                Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities
ii  metacity            1:2.28.0-1           lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  mutter              2.28.1~git20091024-1 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  nautilus            2.28.1-1             file manager and graphical shell f
ii  policykit-1-gnome   0.94-1               GNOME authentication agent for Pol

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.28.1-2   power management tool for the GNOM

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gnome-keyring                 2.28.1-1   GNOME keyring services (daemon and
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.28.0-1   GNOME user's guide

-- no debconf information






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