Bug 248841

I launched metacity manually from KDE and problem appeared. All new windows are
created without frame and title.
metacity-2.18.5-1.fc7

Hmmm.. looks like metacity don't launch at startup at all (or perhaps crashes at
startup?). When in gnome I launched metacity manually windows returned to normal
state. I added metacity to startup in session configuration, but it is temporary
solution of course.

Hi,

Do you have desktop-effects installed?  If so, if you run it, is the "Enable
Desktop Effects" toggle button pushed in?

What is the output of

gconftool-2 -R /apps/gnome-session/rh/window_manager
and
gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager

?

I have desktop-effects installed but button is not pressed. If I press it
however bug returns.

The first output is empty. The second one is here:

workspace_names = (значение не установлено)
 current = (значение не установлено)
 default = (значение не установлено)
 number_of_workspaces = (значение не установлено)

Phrase in brackets means that value is not set.

So just to be clear, when you start off, you have window frames because of your
workaround.  If you run desktop-effects then the button is popped up (not
enabled).  If you click the button then the problem happens (so that it is
enabled) then the problem happens.  Right?

What if you click it again (so that it's not enabled), does it fix itself again?

1. When I start, windows have frames only because I added "metacity
--sm-disable" to gnome session startup. Before that they hadn't any frames
(started to happen after some update, but I can't remember which one).
2. Yes, the problem appears after I enable button for desktop-effects and
disappears after I disable it.
3. The strangest thing is that this happens only on one of my two machines. They
have the same versions of all software.

if you enable desktop effects (to trigger the problem) and then press alt-f2 and
type gtk-window-decorator and press enter, does the problem go away?

Now I'm angry.
1. Keyboard shortcuts do not work while problem presents.
2. I was able to launch gtk-window-decorator from opened terminal and it
returned window frames.
3. But now I can't toggle desktop-effects at all because attempt to do this
causes system hang (only cursor is alive, can't switch to other console or
reboot, had to press reset). I was forced to add metacity to startup on my home
machine now because I can't disable desktop effects. Tried several times. Thanks
a lot for endangering my file systems.

Hi,

This sounds like you're having some odd compiz issues.  I'm going to reassign
this to compiz.

If it locks up again where you can only move the mouse, try pressing 

ctrl-alt-f1 

This will bring you to a text login screen.  From there you can login (as the
same user) and if you run:

export DISPLAY=:0
metacity --replace

It may recover your session.

I already told that I can't switch to another console. I can't switch, I can't
kill Xorg (ctrl+alt+backspace), I can't reboot (ctrl+alt+del). Only reset works.

Sometimes hang happens when restoring window from minimized state. Not every
window however. So far I was able to reproduce it with eMule. Image gets wacky
and cpu is severely used. Input does not work. Only reset helps.

I don't know if it is the same bug or not, but Xorg hangs sometimes when eMule
(under wine) window is restored from minimized state. Happens every ~10-20
restorations. Image gets wacky, cpu is severely used, input does not work. Have
to press reset.

I'm seeing this too.  It seems to be related somehow to compiz.  But it happens
even when desktop effects are not enabled.  I used to be able to fix it by
enabling then disabling desktop effects, but now enabling it locks up X.  I can
fix it until the next time it happens by running metacity in a terminal.  When I
logout and log back in, it's still working.
I ran both those commands, the first gives no output, the second one gives:
 workspace_names = (no value set)
 current = (no value set)
 default = (no value set)
 number_of_workspaces = (no value set)

On a clean F8 install, I ran into this problem again.  I had desktop effects
enabled and using fast user switching caused the window manager to die and not
come back.  I had to manually run the window manager in a console to get back.

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