Bug 457816

Summary:	gnome-wm detect tfp for compiz fallback
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Component:	gnome-session	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Warren Togami 2008-08-04 20:09:55 UTC

1) User logs in to a compiz capable machine.
2) Enables compiz.
3) Log out.
4) Login with the same homedir on a machine NOT capable of compiz.
5) Big problems... often impossible to switch it back without logging in to a compiz capable machine, or blowing away the gconf key manually from a terminal.

http://packages.debian.org/sid/compiz
Debian apparently uses a modified version of compiz-manager (an ugly shell script) as a wrapper replacement for their /usr/bin/compiz.  This is a very ugly and problematc solution.

krh, drago01 and warren agree that gnome-wm should detect tfp and fallback to metacity if compiz cannot possibly work.  This requires no changes to our compiz package, and would be something acceptable for GNOME upstream.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-12-11 08:41:47 UTC

ccsm-0.7.8-1.fc10,compizconfig-python-0.7.8-1.fc10,compizconfig-backend-kconfig-0.7.8-1.fc10,compizconfig-backend-gconf-0.7.8-1.fc10,libcompizconfig-0.7.8-1.fc10,compiz-fusion-extras-0.7.8-2.fc10,compiz-fusion-0.7.8-1.fc10,compiz-0.7.8-4.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ccsm-0.7.8-1.fc10,compizconfig-python-0.7.8-1.fc10,compizconfig-backend-kconfig-0.7.8-1.fc10,compizconfig-backend-gconf-0.7.8-1.fc10,libcompizconfig-0.7.8-1.fc10,compiz-fusion-extras-0.7.8-2.fc10,compiz-fusion-0.7.8-1.fc10,compiz-0.7.8-4.fc10

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-12-13 14:57:11 UTC

ccsm-0.7.8-1.fc10, compizconfig-python-0.7.8-1.fc10, compizconfig-backend-kconfig-0.7.8-1.fc10, compizconfig-backend-gconf-0.7.8-1.fc10, libcompizconfig-0.7.8-1.fc10, compiz-fusion-extras-0.7.8-2.fc10, compiz-0.7.8-4.fc10, compiz-fusion-0.7.8-2.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ccsm compizconfig-python compizconfig-backend-kconfig compizconfig-backend-gconf libcompizconfig compiz-fusion-extras compiz compiz-fusion'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-11206

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-12-21 23:41:58 UTC

ccsm-0.7.8-1.fc10, compizconfig-python-0.7.8-1.fc10, compizconfig-backend-kconfig-0.7.8-1.fc10, compizconfig-backend-gconf-0.7.8-1.fc10, libcompizconfig-0.7.8-1.fc10, compiz-fusion-extras-0.7.8-2.fc10, compiz-0.7.8-4.fc10, compiz-fusion-0.7.8-2.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.