Bug#369350: metacity: Xinerama and saved GNOME session, window placement problems

Bilderbeek, Manuel manuel.bilderbeek at oce.com
Mon May 29 10:04:38 UTC 2006


Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.14.1-2
Severity: normal

When I upgraded to GNOME 2.14 via my regular Debian testing
dist-upgrade, I found a problem with window placement on my xinerama
setup. I had the following setup. On the left monitor I had a big
gnome-terminal (at the right part of the screen)  and on the right
monitor I had 2 smaller gnome-terminals (on the left part of the
screen).
This worked fine with the GNOME 2.12 components. I had these 3
gnome-terminals started up automatically with the 'save current session'
option of the logout-dialog of GNOME.

However, since the upgrade, the 2 gnome-terminals on the right monitor
disappeared. To fix this, I just launched 2 new gnome-terminals, placed
them correctly on the xinerama-desktop (so, on the right monitor) and
saved the session. When logging in now, the 2 gnome-terminals from the
right screen just end up on top of the big gnome-terminal of the left
screen.

It seems it won't place 'saved session' programs on the right screen
anymore. However, the GNOME panel I have on the right screen works just
fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.11.4-2       The ATK accessibility
toolkit
ii  libc6                     2.3.6-7        GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libgconf2-4               2.14.0-1       GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.10.2-1       The GLib library of C
routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.8.16-1       The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii  libice6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii  libmetacity0              1:2.14.1-2     library of lightweight GTK2
based
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.12.1-2       Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libsm6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session
Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.8-1          library for program launch
feedbac
ii  libx11-6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol
client li
ii  libxcursor1               1.1.3-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System
miscellaneous exte
ii  libxinerama1              6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System multi-head
display
ii  libxrandr2                6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Resize,
Rotate and
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.0.2-1    X Rendering Extension
client libra
ii  metacity-common           1:2.14.1-2     Shared files of lightweight
GTK2 b

metacity recommends no packages.

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