I just installed M6 on my laptop. Installation went smoothly, but when I logged into my new desktop (GNOME), metacity was not running (no wm at all). I started an xterm and ran “metacity --replace” which worked fine. I then tried enabling desktop effects both via the simple-ccsm and “compiz --replace”, and ended up with no wm again. Anyone else see this behavior?
By the way, I installed M6 over an Ubuntu install - before logging in I deleted .gnome2, .gnome2_private, .gconf, .gconfd, .nautilus, and .config. Is that a problem? Are there still settings I need to get rid of?
Sounds similiar to a problem I’ve had in 11.2 using gnome and compiz repos instead of default on one of my systems if I boot with Gnome instead of KDE. With desktop effects on, no window management, turn them off and it appears again.
Since I don’t use Gnome normally I didn’t look at how to fix it though.
GNOME has some definite issues (besides the lack of alternative window management, specifically compiz, there’s no audio support, either, even though my X-Fi works fine in KDE and is detected by GNOME Control Center), which is why I’ve kept KDE as the default.
Speaking of M6, I actually had a power loss happen while playing a QuickTime movie with gxine (in KDE). When I got power back, I simply restarted, and watched M6 put itself back together. And by the by, gxine plays the QT movie better than QuickTime Player for Windows (including upscaling).
So far, it looks like GNOME has a few more bugs than KDE from a multimedia standpoint.
And I’ve yet to see one post asking for help on this … so there are possibly no bug reports on this so if there is a problem, I don’t know how it will get fixed. :\
My issue appears to be https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575559 - compiz is broken on Intel graphics. A potential fix has been uploaded to the X11/Compiz b.s. repo. (no, really! “b.s” is for “Build Service” :P) I’ll be testing it this evening.
@oldcpu - I didn’t even try out audio on my install - I’ll look at that as well.