Re: Is mutter not giving up the _NET_WM_CM_S%d selection?

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just had a user come into #compiz and their problem was that compiz
> couldn't cleanly replace gnome-shell (and mutter) because it doing
> XCompositeRedirectSubwindows fails. This would seem like mutter does
> not do XCompositeUnredirectSubwindows (.. CompositeRedirectManual)
> when it loses the _NET_WM_CM_S%d selection. At least in my testing
> doing --replace seems to work fine on my system, but this user was
> running Arch Linux which I don't run, so I'm wondering if that was a
> bug in the old version or a newer version to the one in Ubuntu.

Mutters handlng of the compositor selection is pretty incomplete, see

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654760