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has caused the Debian Bug report #533840,
regarding gnome-session: switches to metacity from other window manager on
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Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.26.1-7
Severity: normal
I had a working Gnome setup with sawfish. Sawfish was getting started
automatically because I had set that in System / Preferences /
Sessions (which seems to have disappeared now...): once in the distant
past, removed metacity from there and started sawfish and asked
gnome-session to remember what was currently running (including
sawfish).
Now Gnome starts metacity. For what reason it decided to ignore my
already set preference, I cannot fathom, but I consider it a bug. I
suspect the upgrade from gnome-session 2.22 to 2.26.
aptitude:[UPGRADE] gnome-session 2.22.3-3 -> 2.26.1-6
aptitude:[UPGRADE] gnome-session 2.26.1-6 -> 2.26.1-7
aptitude:[UPGRADE] gnome-session-bin 2.26.1-6 -> 2.26.1-7
aptitude.2.gz:[UPGRADE] gnome-session 2.22.3-2 -> 2.22.3-3
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii gnome-panel 2.26.2-1 launcher and docking facility for
ii gnome-session-bin 2.26.1-7 The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii gnome-settings-daemon 2.26.1-2 daemon handling the GNOME session
ii metacity 1:2.26.0-2 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii sawfish 1:1.3.5.2-1 a window manager for X11
gnome-session recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii desktop-base 5.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto
ii gnome-keyring 2.26.1-1 GNOME keyring services (daemon and
ii gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.24.2-2 GNOME user's guide
-- no debconf information
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There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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