Ubuntu
gnome-session package

Uninstalling compiz leads to GNOME starting with no window manager

Bug #194022 reported by Dan Watkins
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Steps To Reproduce
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1. Uninstall compiz and related packages.
2. Restart the computer (haven't narrowed down more than this).

This will lead to GNOME starting without a window manager, which requires running 'metacity &' from a terminal (as Alt-F2 does nothing). This also adds the line:
   exec: 140: /usr/bin/compiz: not found
to ~/.xsession-errors

Expected Behaviour
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Fall back to metacity.

Release
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DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

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Matthias Rampke (matthias-rampke) wrote :

Same problem with a fresh installation of GNOME on Kubuntu 8.04 beta (upgraded from 7.10). Fixed by installing compiz and choosing new decoration theme.

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Angelo Lisco (angystardust-gmail) wrote :

Hi Daniel,
 this is should be fixed in the last upload of gnome-session package (2.22.1-0ubuntu2)
Can you confirm this? Thanks

 gnome-session (2.22.1-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/19_gnome-wm-tweaking.patch:
     - if compiz is not installed fallback to metacity correctly and
       if that is not availalbe a x-window-terminal-emulator
   * debian/control.in:
     - add missing gnome-keyring build-dependency

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Dan Watkins (oddbloke) wrote :

I'm afraid I can't, as I'm not using Ubuntu ATM.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I mark this fixed released, it works fine for my tests. Please reopen if you still experience this problem.

Changed in gnome-session:
assignee: nobody → mvo
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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