Actually, the situation seems even worse in Oneiric. 1) Neither /usr/bin/gnome-wm nor the /desktop/gnome/session keys exist, so I can't figure out the intended way to set the window manager for gnome 2) Not only the "Ubuntu" sessions use metacity, but the special "Sawfish" session installed by sawfish _also_ starts metacity...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774131 Title: 2D GNOME session fails to use wm wrapper script Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-session-common The file /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/2d-gnome.session contains the line Required-windowmanager=metacity This should say Required-windowmanager=gnome-wm just like in classic-gnome.session, otherwise the users wm preference will not be respected. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/774131/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
