Bug#532623: closed by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (Bug#532623: fixed in xorg 1:7.4+3)
I rebooted the computer hoping that X might work when the computer came
up. X did start but it had some problems. I was running metacity
before trying to install the xserver-xorg version from sid and ran into
all of the problems installing. I noticed some animation when I started
windows in gnome and the windows did not have window decorations. I
started the compiz configuration applet. The applet said I was running
metacity which is what should have been running. I did not see any
metacity process though. If I select compiz in the applet and then go
back to metacity, metacity will be the windows manager and everything
will work correctly as it did before the xserver-xorg upgrade. Each
time I login to gnome it seems to go back to compiz. If I configure
compiz to have window decorations and restart compiz it will have
decorations but they don't do anything (i.e. you can see them but can't
move the window, minimize, maximize, kill, etc. on the decoration). So
it seems that the xserver-xorg install kind of halfway switched the
window manager from metacity to compiz. Forcing compiz and configuring
compiz gives me visual non-functioning window decorations. I wouldn't
mind running compiz if the windows decorations worked. Otherwise, I
would like the default to be metacity.
Brent
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