forwarded 490024 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516088 thanks
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 12:10 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > I'm using metacity with compositing turned on and I've got > quite attached to the drop shadows. For some reason, > gnome-panel doesn't have one, in certain situations. This > has happened to me on three machines and it seems like a > bit of an odd bug. > > Usually it has it at first and loses it at some later point > in my session. > > I've just closed tracker, xchat and pidgin, and tried > hupping gnome-panel to get it back, no luck. HUPping > metacity *did* bring it back. > > I'm wondering if one of the panel applets is providing a > hint that results in metacity not drop-shadowing it. I > shall keep an eye on what I'm running and see what might > provoke it into disappearing again. Hi, According to upstream, it's "a race condition between metacity discovering the desktop window and the window registering itself as a desktop". I usually just run "metacity --replace" after logging in, and the drop shadow is okay for the rest of the session. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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