Bug#604043: gnome-session: when choosing GNOME/Openbox as my session, both metacity and openbox get started

[Jim Paris]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 19 novembre 2010 à 13:05 -0500, Jim Paris a écrit :
> > I log in via GDM by selecting the "GNOME/Openbox" session.
> 
> Sorry but what is this session? It’s certainly not provided by GNOME.

It is provided by /usr/share/xsessions/openbox-gnome.desktop, which is
part of the "openbox" package.

> > I changed the /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager 
> > gconf key from "gnome-wm" to "openbox", and now it works properly,
> > but I don't think that should be necessary.
> 
> This is the documented way to change your window manager for GNOME.

My problem isn't changing the window manager.  It's that, in the
_default_ configuration with that session selected, two window
managers are executed.  This is a regression that results in 100% CPU
usage.  If it's actually a bug in the openbox package as you seem to
suggest, please reassign there.  I reported it to gnome-session
because that's the process that's causing the 100% CPU usage by
spawning two window managers.

-jim