Antonio Olivares wrote:
Hi
Hello!
>> All my windows launched end up stuck to the top of my screen
and
>> there is no way to switch to previously launched applications.
>> The last application launched has focus. It appears there is no
>> window manager. Metacity is the WM, GNOME is the desktop.
>
> Is there a bug report on this? . This doesnt happen for me. Does it
> happen for anyone else at all?
Dumping ~/.metacity/sessions/* allows the metacity window manager to
function again. Someone earlier posted that clering metacity sessions
allowed functionality again to return for them. I decided to try that
also, since there was no management for windowing programs.
I noticed there were sessions recorded back to June were contained in
the sessions before I cleared the sessions. Does metacity tidy up at all
or keeps saving all sessions forever?
>
Yes it happens to me. Firefox even crashes randomly. I use
openoffice write and firefox at the same time one looses focus while
the other one is open. When firefox crashes I have to reopen it.
Until now, I have discovered a program called windows selector in
gnome that lets me browse and switch between windows. This program
fixes that problem.
The window selector was installed in the panel. I believe if there is no
window manager, there is nothing that the window selector can detect. I
thought to try selecting the applet when the program first failed.
description: The Window Selector shows a list of all windows and lets
you browse them.
I will have to try openoffice in conjunction with firefox to see if I
see the problem you are having.
Back in GNOME, all panels as they were before the metacity
overload/corruption.
Jim