Cannot switch active window after login

**acron** · February 10th, 2010

Originally Posted by pritamps

Try running nautilus from a terminal

Code:

nautilus &

It seems to me like nautilus is not starting for you.

thanks for your reply. Sadly starting nautilus does not help. It prints

Code:

Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

and opens a nautilus-window of my home which then has the focus. But still I cannot focus any other window. I also get the above error message if I restart the gnome session which then works and run nautilus from a terminal. The message seems to come from bug #454234.

I found some strange errors in /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log which may be related to the problem.

Code:

(gnome-settings-daemon:3014): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed

(gnome-settings-daemon:3014): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
Warnung der Fensterverwaltung: Gespeicherte Sitzungsdatei /var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/10b4269780fee569be12657955566347500000030090001.ms konnte nicht gelesen werden: Datei »/var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/10b4269780fee569be12657955566347500000030090001.ms« konnte nicht geöffnet werden: No such file or directory
** (process:3024): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=3024 display=:0.0 xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-VbGgSU/database
Warnung der Fensterverwaltung: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1400027 (Anmeldefen)
Warnung der Fensterverwaltung: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Warnung der Fensterverwaltung: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1400027 (Anmeldefen)
Warnung der Fensterverwaltung: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Warnung der Fensterverwaltung: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1400027 (Anmeldefen)
Warnung der Fensterverwaltung: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Warnung der Fensterverwaltung: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!

FYI: Some of the messages are german, sorry.
"Warnung der Fensterverwaltung"
translates to
"Warning of the window manager"
and
"Gespeicherte Sitzungsdatei X konnte nicht gelesen werden: Datei »X« konnte nicht geöffnet werden"
translates to
"Saved session file X could not be read: File »X« could not be opened"
(IMHO it's a rather stupid idea to localise log messages but anyway)

Can someone tell me where the information about the gnome session to load is stored?

Greets acron

**jieter** · February 10th, 2010

Same here on Karmic Koala, fully updated.

- Mouse sometimes does not work on windows. (it does work for the gnome-panel)
- Sometimes the mouse works on the window below the active one.

Restarting GDM like stated above fixes the problem only for a while. While in the broken state, 'switching windows' is possible by closing the active one, the window which was active before is activated.

some searches in launchpad for this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ver/+bug/41301
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ce/+bug/505494

**acron** · February 10th, 2010

Originally Posted by jieter

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ver/+bug/41301
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ce/+bug/505494

This bugs seem not be related to my problem as it is said that keyboard shortcuts are still functional, but I cannot switch the active window with Alt-Tab.