Jay Cliburn wrote:
I'm seeing unusual behavior in X/gnome after today's update.
- The desktop switcher is gone from my default gnome session, now
replaced by a new trash can. (This may be a feature of the new gnome-theme, perhaps.)
- After a reboot and a fresh login to X, things look pretty much
normal on the desktop, but whenever I launch a gnome-terminal, all window decorations disappear and the launched terminal is anchored and immovable in the upper left corner of the display. Subsequent gnome-term launches overlay the previous instance in the same location. It's as if the window manager stops running. Starting metacity manually returns the desktop to normal.
- Thunderbird disappears. It's still running, but the window is
no longer displayed. Upon logout, the window flashes briefly.
There are no clues in syslog or Xlog. :(
Is this one of those instances where removing all gconf stuff
in $HOME is called for?
I moved $HOME/.gconf{d} out of the way and my desktop defaults have returned to normal (show desktop app, window list app, desktop switcher app are present), however metacity psuedo-death still occurs upon first launch of gnome-terminal.