This package was somehow auto-installed in a release upgrade today from 14.04
to 14.10, and cost me most of the day trying to figure out why everything in X
was glitchy and crashing. The terminal looked like
http://askubuntu.com/questions/285836/letter-spacing-in-gnome-terminal
Even xterm
Given that this package breaks the entire desktop in a non-obvious way,
the priority should be high. I'm a software developer and have used
linux as my daily OS since 1993 and it took me several hours to figure
out what was going wrong.
What are novice users going to do, other than install
I am experiencing this bug on Lucid.
The effects option (System/Preferences/Appearance/Visual Effects) is set
to 'None'.
$ gconftool -R /apps/metacity/general
visual_bell_type = fullscreen
auto_raise_delay = 500
titlebar_font = Sans Bold 10
reduced_resources = false
application_based =
I forgot to mention that it doesn't matter if the always on top
setting is used on any window.
The particular use case that I experience routinely is that when in a
terminal window, gnome-terminal or xterm, then web browser windows
(firefox, konqueror, google-chrome) always appear in the
I was proposing to make the background tab work just like this (Use
background settings from system theme). I'm not sure of how else to do
implement this when there are 2 sources for the background configuration
(gconf and gtkrc), without making it very fragile. The issue I have is
trying to work
