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       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Launching alternate Window Manager changes default Window Manager with
  no option to reset

Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gdm

  I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, with gdm version
  2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3.

  When another Window Manager is installed that gdm adds as an option to
  run with Gnome, for example e16, selecting the "e16 Gnome" option will
  cause the normal "Gnome" and "Failsafe Gnome" session options to
  always use that window manager instead of metacity on future logins.
  There is no option within gdm to go back to using metacity with Gnome,
  and the only way I could find to reverse this was to manually edit a
  line in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/%gconf.xml
  to read "metacity" instead of "e16". In fact, this has disabled all my
  3D effects like true transparency, so I may have to edit that file
  again to read "compiz" or something, quite a mess when I have to
  reverse unwanted changes to my default settings in this manner.

  It would be preferable for the "Gnome" and "Failsafe Gnome" options to
  always use metacity (with whatever user set 3D effects) as a window
  manager, although another possible (but less optimal) solution would
  be to add a "metacity Gnome" session option like the "e16 Gnome"
  option.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gdm 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Aug 12 13:11:42 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gdm

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