From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ja-JPM; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050623 Fedora/1.0.4-5 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: When running any program that uses SDL (frozen-bubble is a good example but not the only one) and X11 display is set to 24-bit color, metacity terminates immediately with BadMatch errors (over and over, since gnome-session tries to restart it over and over). Changing to 16-bit color, metacity acts fine. I can try to paste the BadMatch error, if needed. Should this bug be filed for the SDL component ? (SDL-1.2.8-3.2) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): metacity-2.10.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run X in 24-bit 2. log in to gnome 3. install and run frozen-bubble Actual Results: metacity "crashes" over and over, eventually giving up. end up window-managerless. Expected Results: metacity should remain. Additional info: SDL is version SDL-1.2.8-3.2
*** Bug 163753 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This isn't a metacity bug, as far as I can tell now. I took it upon myself to turn on the Composite extension, which caused this strange turn of events. I've turned it off--problem solved. I'm closing the bug.