Bug 11034 - Compiz auto-respawning with --replace
Summary: Compiz auto-respawning with --replace
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: App/compiz (show other bugs)
Version: 7.2 (2007.02)
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium major
Assignee: David Reveman
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2007-05-22 02:22 UTC by Michael Monreal
Modified: 2018-06-12 19:10 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Monreal 2007-05-22 02:22:29 UTC
While trying to find a work-around for my previous bug (11033), I noticed that disabling Compiz for the time while the Wine fullscreen app runs, fixes the problem. So I can do "metacity --replace" and then run the wine app and it will exit normally. After that I can restart compiz and everything is ok. 

But I can only do this once per session, because after that, I cannot get Metacity to run, because after starting it, Compiz seems to respawn and replace Metacity instantly. Look at this:
 

nx@enigma:~$ ps -ax | grep compiz
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
 5818 ?        SL     0:50 compiz glib gconf


nx@enigma:~$ kill  5818
nx@enigma:~$ ps -ax | grep compiz
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
 5818 ?        Z      0:50 [compiz] <defunct>


nx@enigma:~$ kill -9 5818 & metacity		=> metacity runs
nx@enigma:~$ compiz --replace glib gconf	=> compiz runs


nx@enigma:~$ ps -ax | grep compiz
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
 5818 ?        Z      0:00 [compiz] <defunct>
 6310 pts/1    SL+    0:00 compiz --replace glib gconf


nx@enigma:~$ kill -9 6310 & metacity		=> metacity DOESN'T run!


nx@enigma:~$ ps -ax | grep compiz
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
 5913 ?        Z      0:00 [compiz] <defunct>
 6315 ?        SL     0:00 compiz --replace glib gconf


nx@enigma:~$ metacity --replace			=> metacity still doesn't run


nx@enigma:~$ ps -ax | grep compiz
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
 5913 ?        Z      0:00 [compiz] <defunct>
 6319 ?        SL     0:00 compiz --replace glib gconf


It would really help me in regard to my previous bug, if I could run and
replace compiz and metacity as often as I wish. Anyway, the current 
behaviour is very irritating. Also, why do I get the "[compiz] <defunct>" processes?
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2018-06-12 19:10:14 UTC
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.


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