Weird config problem with metacity in 2.6

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 12:39, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 12:28:04 -0400
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 11:55, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > After I upgrading several systems to 2.6, I ran into an odd problem with
> > > metacity configuration. On both other systems I edited the
> > > /apps/metacity/general/action_double_click_titlebar to
> > > "toggle_shade". But, on one system that key is a boolean! The action of a
> > > double click is to maximize, the default in 2.6.
> > >
> > > Any idea why this happened? And, more importantly, how can I get things
> > > back to normal? I can't seem to edit the key to change it's type and I'm
> > > still looking for where it comes from.
> > 
> > Applications > Desktop Preferences > Windows
> 
> I',m already a step ahead. I tried this before trying gconf-editor as
> this didn't work. When I try this I get an error window stating:
> An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
> gnome-window-properties. Some of your configuration settings may not
> work properly.
> 
> Details tell me:
> Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `bool' for key
> /apps/metacity/general/action_double_click_titlebar
> 
> This is exactly what I see in gconf-editor. I was looking for the master
> information that makes
> /apps/metacity/general/action_double_click_titlebar a boolean instead of
> a string.

All of the schemas are kept in
/usr/X11R6/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/metacity.  You
might try removing your ~/.gconf/apps/metacity directory after logging
out of GNOME and shutting down gconfd-2.

Joe

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