Comment 9 for bug 559111

I reinstalled "ubuntu-desktop" to no avail. "gnome-desktop-environment" isn't installed at all on my system, according to synaptic. If I select it to be installed, synaptic lists a large number of packages it additionally needs, some of which look quite redundant to what I think I have currently running, so I refrained from installing them.

I realized I was not really using the latest metacity version during my post #6 (as you can see in the appended crash file to #5), and the crash during right-clicking in the title bar is gone now. Nonetheless, I still have to start metacity manually after login to get my window decorations. I don't see any .crash file in /var/crash, though. I'm appending my ~/.xsession-errors to this post, in case this helps. Where can I find more information about metacity starting up, to hunt down this bug? I did not find any "metacity" entries in /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log, for example.