I use the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable, in order to have a system-wide default window manager, Compiz, instead of Metacity; I still want the latter to be fully working, and with as many settings as possible shared with the former. The “GNOME compatibility” plugin makes this easy, in that it makes Compiz (and CompizConfig) use Metacity’s gconf keys, so that changing settings in CCSM actually changes them for Metacity, when applicable (mainly, keyboard shortcuts). Now, turns out that gnome-wm loads Compiz with the gconf plugins, and that will cause Compiz to *only* use its own configuration, instead of a (possibly, depending on plugins) shared config with Metacity. Basically, Compiz should really just do whatever the profile in CCSM says, so the startup plugin should be ccp (CompizConfig Profile). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. “export WINDOW_MANAGER=compiz” somewhere in /etc/env.d 2. env-update Actual Results: Compiz only uses settings from gconf/apps/compiz, due to gnome-wm starting it with plugin gconf instead of ccp. Expected Results: Compiz profile applied exactly as the user specified in CompizConfig, when the latter is installed. emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r6-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T5550_@_1.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/store/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acpi alsa bash-completion branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cxx dbus dga dri dvd dvdr encode exif fbcon ffmpeg flac fontconfig ftp fuse gd gif gimp gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv id3tag ieee1394 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k lame lcms libnotify lm_sensors lzma matroska midi mime mmap mmx mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pch pcmcia pcre pdf perl png posix pppd python readline reflection samba sdl session sharedmem smp sockets spell spl sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg sysfs syslog sysvipc tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi x86 xattr xorg xpm xulrunner xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES=" actions alias asis auth_basic authz_host autoindex dir env headers ident include log_config mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite version " APACHE2_MPMS="worker" CAMERAS="template" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 205106 [details, diff] Makes Compiz start with ccp plugin, and improve OPTs vars The proposed patch adds a check for /usr/bin/ccsm; if it is found, then ccp is used, otherwise the glib+gconf combo is used as it is now. Also, while working on this patch I found the OPT[1-4] variables to be a bit clumsy, so I replaced them with a single OPTS variable that is accrued bit by bit as necessary. This also allows (should the need arise) to prepend arguments, instead of only appending them (or prepending by manually shifting each OPT[1-3] var into OPT[2-4]...).
Please open an upstream report at https://bugzilla.gnome.org and CC gnome@gentoo.org there and copy the URL here.
(In reply to comment #2) > Please open an upstream report at https://bugzilla.gnome.org and CC > gnome@gentoo.org there and copy the URL here. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597712
Closing upstream until a consensus is found there. It looks like they don't like the proposed change or that the current problem is not well explained for them to understand why it's needed. Please reopen when an agreement has been reached in case we fail to detect it.
