Re: window manager kills itself and respawns

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de> writes:
> 
> i don't exactly know where to put this problem (is it a metacity issue ?
> is it a gnome-session issue ? is it something else issue ?) since a
> couple of days i am realizing that when using apps that for around 1
> second every now and then the window manager gets killed and respawned
> within 1 second. bad sideeffect is that the window after kill and
> respawn is placed somewhere else on the system. this is still valid with
> a fresh rebuild of gnome using the gnome-2-0 branches. any ideas ? can
> someone at least confirm this ?
> 
> in worst case i fill a bug against metacity for this.
> 

If you run metacity with METACITY_VERBOSE=1 METACITY_USE_LOGFILE=1
environment variables, then the tail end of the logfile should help
determine why the respawn occurs.

Havoc