Bug#594892: metacity: Drop shadows appear *above* windows with Xinerama

Luis E. Muñoz lem at itverx.com.ve
Mon Aug 30 13:40:55 UTC 2010


Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.30.1-2
Severity: important


After latest dist-upgrade, when enabling a second monitor via randr and
Xinerama, windows, menus and pop-up elements has their shadow displayed
above the window contents, rendering the content hard to see.

Successive windows add their respective shadows "at the top" of all the
windows.

I believe the problem lies with the built-in compositor. Disabling it via
gconftool-2 --toggle /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager returns
the usability by getting rid of the shadows.

This was working perfectly with the previous version.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.30.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.10-5   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0              0.24-1     Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0                  0.24-1     a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.28.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.20.1-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-7                    2.28.1-1   gtop system monitoring library (sh
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmetacity-private0          1:2.30.1-2 library for the Metacity window ma
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.28.1-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0      0.10-1     library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxcomposite1                1:0.4.2-1  X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxcursor1                   1:1.1.10-2 X cursor management library
ii  libxdamage1                   1:1.1.3-1  X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.2-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                    1:4.0.5-1  X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxinerama1                  2:1.1-3    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                    2:1.3.0-3  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.6-1  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  metacity-common               1:2.30.1-2 shared files for the Metacity wind
ii  zenity                        2.30.0-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages metacity recommends:
ii  gnome-session [x-session-mana 2.30.2-1   The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 
ii  gnome3-session [x-session-man 2.30.2-1   The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 

Versions of packages metacity suggests:
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.30.1-2 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-themes                  2.30.2-1   official themes for the GNOME desk
pn  xdg-user-dirs                 <none>     (no description available)

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