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

[Manuel Bilderbeek]

Hi,

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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?

As I explained: to try it out. But, as I am very used to a Raise/Lower 
hotkey, I still can't use compiz, because it lacks this functionality.

Why isn't there simply some menu option in the Preferences section to 
select compiz or metacity? E.g. in Fedora there was (at least in FC6) an 
option to enable or disable "Desktop Effects" (which was basically 
compiz or metacity selection).

>> 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.

OK.

>> 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.

Darn, I forgot to save the .xsession-errors stuff... For some reason it 
works again now, but there was a segfault in .xession-errors. Of course 
I should have included it, but I simply forgot :S

I did see this, unrelated, but possibly interesting error:
** (gnome-power-manager:18236): DEBUG: We are not a laptop, so not even 
trying
*** ERROR ***
TI:17:36:47     TH:0x1a27110    FI:gpm-main.c   FN:main,233
  - Power Manager is already running in this session.
Traceback:
         gnome-power-manager [0x409457]
         gnome-power-manager [0x420980]
         /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f3eba1dc5c6]
         gnome-power-manager [0x408ce9]

Thanks for listening to my complains. I realize I was a bit edgy when I 
wrote it. It's because things seemed to be horribly broken or at least 
annoying.

-- 
Kind regards,

Manuel