Bug#542841: gnome-core: Same here... why isn't there a GUI way to switch window manager?

[Manuel Bilderbeek]

Package: gnome-core
Version: 1:2.26+0
Severity: normal

I also got hit by this. I have compiz installed, just because I wanted
to experiment with it in the past. After dist-upgrading my testing
machine today, I suddenly got compiz as default window manager.

Why?

I haven't asked for this!
Also, I didn't find any menu option to switch this back to metacity.
Please fix this.

In the end, I wrote a .gnomerc which sets the WINDOW_MANAGER to metacity
(as suggested). Not very user friendly, at least.

Furthermore, my session was completely gone, I had to recreated it. That
sucked. Why was it gone??

And even more: when my girlfriend logs in now, for some reason,
gnome-settings-daemon fails to start. But when starting it again from a
terminal, right after logging in, it works fine...?

What the heck happened?

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-core depends on:
ii  compiz-gnome                  0.8.2-6    OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  eog                           2.26.2-1   Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii  gedit                         2.26.1-1   official text editor of the GNOME 
ii  gnome-applets                 2.26.3-2   Various applets for the GNOME pane
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.26.0-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.26.0-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-menus                   2.26.1-2   an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel                   2.26.3-1   launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gnome-session                 2.26.2-1   The GNOME Session Manager
ii  gnome-settings-daemon         2.26.1-2   daemon handling the GNOME session 
ii  gnome-terminal                2.26.2-2   The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii  gvfs                          1.2.3-3    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  metacity                      1:2.26.0-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  nautilus                      2.26.3-1   file manager and graphical shell f
ii  yelp                          2.26.0-3   Help browser for GNOME

gnome-core recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-core suggests:
ii  gnome-desktop-environment     1:2.26+0   The GNOME Desktop Environment

-- no debconf information