Bug#443933: metacity window position also affected by font changes

[Russ Allbery]

Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> writes:

>> Not sure if this helps track this down, but I've also discovered that
>> each time I change fonts (using System -> Preferences -> Appearance),
>> all of my windows are resized and stacked in the top left of each
>> desktop again.  As before, killing metacity and letting it respawn
>> fixes all the window positioning and sizes.

> Does it happen for all windows, or only those which have been resized?
> E.g. what happens to your many xterm windows, for which the size isn't
> controlled by GNOME preferences?

All of them.

> Unless you are using some external helper like devilspie, the only thing
> dealing with window positioning on a GNOME desktop is metacity.

> Apart from the window positioning (which looks like no positioning at
> all), is metacity working properly? Moving windows, titlebar menus,
> switching workspaces…

Yup!  The only thing that doesn't work right is that all of my xterms end
up stacked in the top left corner of each desktop (but are on the correct
desktop) when metacity starts with a fresh session.  Killing metacity and
letting it respawn repositions all the windows correctly, but then any
global change to something like fonts will cause the windows to all
migrate back to a stack in the top left until I kill metacity again.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>