Fedora 10 ships with compiz and launches it as: compiz --ignore-desktop-hints glib gconf
This causes compiz to load the glib and gconf plugins at startup. This works fine. The problem arises when the gconf database does not include those plugins in /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins. What happens is that the plugins get loaded at startup, and after all the "general" (read: core) options are read, it then unloads any plugins not in the active_plugins list right after, causing the gconf plugin to not configure any other plugins, and stop listening for gconf notify events so further configuration does not take effect at runtime (even for core configuration options). Using gconf-editor to add gconf to the active_plugins list allows it to work as expected (a viable replacement for the ini plugin). HOWEVER, ccsm does not appear to have any knowledge of the existence of the gconf plugin, so whenever you add or remove another plugin from the list, it ends up removing gconf from the list as well. Immediately causing compiz to stop listening for gconf notify events (see above). I would be happy to supply a patch to fix this behavior, but I would appreciate direction on how best to fix the bug. Some options I considered: 1: Treat plugins passed on the compiz command line as unremovable at runtime. active_plugins can safely not include gconf, and gconf will remain loaded for the lifetime of compiz. 2: Update the ccsm gconf backend so that any updates to active_plugins will implicitly include gconf in the list (this made sense to me, since you wouldn't want to be configuring compiz via gconf without giving compiz the ability to actually respond to configuration events). 3: Update the gconf plugin itself to always include itself in the active_plugins list when requested, and it doesn't exist (this is more in line with option 1, but only modifies the gconf plugin). What do you think? Perhaps some other approach altogether? _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
