Re: Gnome desktop environment defect.

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

Dear Kevin,

As no one has answered your email most likely no one knew what to say ;-)

From my perspective GNOME has moved to release 3.x and no longer 
supports Compiz. Only your distribution will issue patches to support 
old releases of GNOME and therefore they are a better source of support.

Now from the time I was using GNOME+Compiz, when compiz failed GNOME 
would revert to metacity. So i feel this was already addresses and maybe 
could be another bug on your system.

Fred

On 06/23/2011 02:00 PM, Kevin Master wrote:
> Dear Gnome masters:
>
> I recently did xinerama on my PC with RHEL6.0(X server 1.7.7),
> configured Xinerama on the top of Compiz as the following precudure:
> 1. connect 2 displays to my ATI 4800 graphics card
> 2. open Compiz as the composite desktop manager.
> 3. open Xinerama from the Catalyst control center and gdm restart
>
> After the restart, windows have no decoration and mouse use X server
> default theme.
> I psed and find, there is no window manager at all. Further
> investigation on this is that when Xinerama is opened and X server
> composite
> extension is force closed. Compiz fails if composite extension failed.
> That is why there is no window manager once Xinerama is enabled.
>
> So I am thinking that, under gnome desktop environment, if the user
> configured window manager as Compiz, and Compiz fails for any
> reason,gnome should have some fallback mechanism to use another window
> manager.
>
> I plan to file a bug on the bugzilla about this problem.
> Best Regards
>
> Kevin