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Bug 123267 - Metacity seems to forget settings
Metacity seems to forget settings
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154005
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.6.x
Other Linux
: High normal
: METACITY2.8.x
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
: 143152 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-26 00:24 UTC by Iain
Modified: 2005-08-26 21:45 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Iain 2003-09-26 00:24:12 UTC 
Occasionally metacity forgets that I've set sloppy focus and reverts to
click to focus.
Changing the setting in GConf-editor doesn't fix things, the only solution
is to killall metacity and let gnome-session restart it...then we're back
in sloppy focus mode.

(I'm using CVS HEAD)
Comment 1 Rob Adams 2003-09-26 01:00:42 UTC 
I use sloppy focus all the time and I've never seen that happen. 
Anything weird about your setup?  Have you run a killall gconfd-2 or
restarted your computer since you upgraded your gnome?
Comment 2 Iain 2003-09-26 01:09:58 UTC 
Its happened on numerous occasions over the last month or so. So yeah,
everything that needs to be restarted has been restarted. Nothing
weird about the setup. CVS HEAD of gnome, linux 2.6-test4 kernel...

gtk, pango and glib HEAD...but I don't know if that'd cause any issues.
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2003-09-26 01:21:07 UTC 
Does it forget on session login, or sometime during the session?

There's another bug about forgetting stuff only at login time.

For both of these all I can think of is some sort of "CORBA stops
working" scenario.
Comment 4 Iain 2003-09-26 10:51:58 UTC 
During the session
Comment 5 Elijah Newren 2004-07-13 23:28:40 UTC 
There's been a couple other bug reports about this--but I don't recall the numbers.
Comment 6 Elijah Newren 2004-07-27 23:13:46 UTC 
Bug 143152 is at least one of the other bugs I was thinking of.  I'm pretty sure
these two are duplicates, but not completely sure due to the slight differences
in description.
Comment 7 Elijah Newren 2004-12-20 19:58:13 UTC 
*** Bug 143152 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Elijah Newren 2005-02-06 23:26:49 UTC 
This may be the same as bug 154005.  Can anyone duplicate this with GConf >=
2.8.2  (if using the 2.8.x stable series) or GConf >= 2.9.3?  (Note that neither
of those versions exist yet, so you'll have to be using CVS HEAD if you want to
test it out right now.)
Comment 9 Elijah Newren 2005-08-26 21:45:54 UTC 
Well, as noted in bug 143152, I saw this bug too but I don't see it any more. 
So I'm marked as a dupe of 154005.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154005 ***