Bug 530001 - metacity wont die!
Summary: metacity wont die!
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.2
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Factory
Hardware: x86 openSUSE 11.1
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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URL: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cg...
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Reported: 2009-08-11 12:57 UTC by nicklas boman
Modified: 2009-09-01 14:46 UTC (History)
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Description nicklas boman 2009-08-11 12:57:39 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Im running GNOME as DE but with Xfwm4 as my windowmanager instead of Metacity.

previous milestone, i did like so ... "killall metacity && xfwm4
--replace&" and re-logged in, and all was peachy.

Now in this milestone, after doing the above, it still tries to start
metacity every quarter minute or so.. (noticed this due to spewing out
errors in my tty1 when i missed a metacity theme) ... maby it was like
that in previous milestones aswell, but i didnt notice due to lack of
missing theme?! :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. killall metacity && xfwm4 --replace &
2. re-login

Actual Results:  
metacity is trying to launch anyway

Expected Results:  
just having xfwm4 as a replacement for metacity
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2009-09-01 14:46:34 UTC 
FWIW, the right way to start another WM is to put some .desktop file in your home autostart directory for xfwm4 which will contain this additional key:
X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager

The loop issue is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579355