Posted on Jan 21, 2010

Metacity loses windows position

I finally found the end of skein! It's about 3 days that I'm googling and asking gentoo people trying to solve this annyoing problem I have. In practise, the applications that I minimize into the traybar, once restored, completely loses the postition that I gave to them.

I've so damn noticed that today when I played with Gwibber. It starts placed on the left, I place it on the right, then I minimize it into the traybar, I restore the apps after few seconds and it reappears on the left. With Compiz that didn't happen!

The solution? One frigging line command:

gconftool-2 --set -t boolean /apps/metacity/general/disable_workarounds false


It's quite funny the description of the key "Disable misfeatures that are required by old or broken applications". I think that there must be so many old and broken application nowadays..

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