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

[henry atting]

On Fr, Jun 11 2010, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> 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?

Mmh, I did not test them in a gnome-session. To choose I have these
lines in ~/.xinitirc

case "$1" in
urxvt) exec /usr/bin/urxvt;;
dwm) exec /usr/bin/dwm;;
awe) exec /usr/bin/awesome;;
gno) exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
esac


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

No, after quitting gnome-session .xsession-errors remains empty.

henry


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