Bug#585534: zsh as login shell breaks parts of gnome-session

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 11 juin 2010 à 15:27 +0200, henry atting a écrit :
> When zsh used as login shell certain part of a gnome-session won't work.
> All windows are attached to the left upper corner and only a root cursor
> is displayed. 
> A test with other window managers eg. awesome revealed that this problem
> solely occurrs with metacity as wm.

This sounds indeed like metacity not starting;
How did you test other window managers? By setting $WINDOW_MANAGER?

Do you have any relevant output in .xsession-errors?

Cheers,
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