I can also confirm that "killall metacity" breaks the cycle, though I'm not sure why.
~/.xsession-errors is 54MB of: Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager. Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/mdz/.config/metacity/sessions/1037d2bf8e46f506124701073754142900000192700026.ms: Failed to open file '/home/mdz/.config/metacity/sessions/1037d2bf8e46f506124701073754142900000192700026.ms': No such file or directory -- compiz --replace fails to kill metacity, resulting in cpu overload https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389686 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs