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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 19 septembre 2009 à 20:52 +0200, Manuel Bilderbeek a écrit : 
> 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.

If you don’t want to run compiz, why install it?

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

The session format changed in 2.26. Currently no one has written any
migration code. If it existed, I’d happily include it.

> 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...?

Without any error message, there’s no way we can help you.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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