Ryan Lortie wrote following comment my upstream report: "hi Attila, This is not a bug in dconf, but rather in metacity. The bug no longer exists because metacity switched to using GSettings a while ago (which is quite a lot more strict when it comes to checking types vs. the schemas).
Ubuntu has been intentionally using an older version of metacity for some time specifically because they needed the GConf support for compatibility with Compiz (which has not yet made the change to GSettings, but will soon). Long story short: this bug is already fixed in GNOME and will soon be fixed in Ubuntu as well (ie: before 12.10 release)." My question: possible fix this error anyway in Ubuntu 12.04 to not happening this type mismatch with Metacity keybindings some time? Attila -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/955876 Title: Possible have wrong values in Metacity gconf/gsettings keys Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Dear Developers, I using Ubuntu Precise with GNOME3 fallback session, my default window manager is metacity. Not often, but some time my Precise system forgot usual keybindings preferences. This situation usual GNOME Panel is crashed with following error, with already reported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/851532 After this crash happening, impossible using general keybindings (ALT+F1, ALT+F2, ALT+TAB, ALT+F4, etc). I see an interesting error message when I try resetting this general keybindings in GNOME Control Center Keyboard preference tool in the keybindings page. I run simple gnome-control-center keyboard command, and see following error messages: GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_workspace_left GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_workspace_right GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_workspace_up GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_workspace_down GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_windows GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_group GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_panels GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_windows GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_group GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_panels GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/show_desktop GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_left GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_right GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_up GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_down GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/panel_run_dialog GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/panel_main_menu GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/activate_window_menu GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_fullscreen GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_maximized GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/maximize GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/unmaximize GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_shaded GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/close GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/minimize GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/begin_move GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/begin_resize GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_on_all_workspaces GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/raise_or_lower GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/raise GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/lower GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/maximize_vertically GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `list' for key /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/maximize_horizontally Before GNOME Panel not crash my system, not existed the .gconf/apps/metacity folder. Some time when I delete entire this folder, next restart the directory again creating, and the problem begin again. This situation need entire remove the .gconf folder and the .config/dconf/user file. In the /usr/share/GConf/gsettings/wm-schemas.convert file have following Metacity Keybindings related conversions: # From org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings [org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings] switch-to-workspace-1 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-1 switch-to-workspace-2 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-2 switch-to-workspace-3 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-3 switch-to-workspace-4 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-4 switch-to-workspace-5 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-5 switch-to-workspace-6 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-6 switch-to-workspace-7 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-7 switch-to-workspace-8 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-8 switch-to-workspace-9 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-9 switch-to-workspace-10 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-10 switch-to-workspace-11 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-11 switch-to-workspace-12 = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch-to-workspace-12 switch-to-workspace-left = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_left switch-to-workspace-right = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_right switch-to-workspace-up = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_up switch-to-workspace-down = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_down switch-group = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_group switch-group-backward = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_group_backward switch-windows = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_windows switch-windows-backward = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_windows_backward switch-panels = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_panels switch-panels-backward = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_panels_backward cycle-group = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_group cycle-group-backward = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_group_backward cycle-windows = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_windows cycle-windows-backward = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_windows_backward cycle-panels = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_panels cycle-panels-backward = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_panels_backward show-desktop = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/show_desktop panel-main-menu = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/panel_main_menu panel-run-dialog = /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/panel_run_dialog set-spew-mark = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/set_spew_mark activate-window-menu = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/activate_window_menu toggle-fullscreen = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_fullscreen toggle-maximized = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_maximized toggle-above = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_above maximize = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/maximize unmaximize = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/unmaximize toggle-shaded = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_shaded minimize = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/minimize close = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/close begin-move = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/begin_move begin-resize = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/begin_resize toggle-on-all-workspaces = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_on_all_workspaces move-to-workspace-1 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-1 move-to-workspace-2 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-2 move-to-workspace-3 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-3 move-to-workspace-4 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-4 move-to-workspace-5 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-5 move-to-workspace-6 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-6 move-to-workspace-7 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-7 move-to-workspace-8 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-8 move-to-workspace-9 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-9 move-to-workspace-10 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-10 move-to-workspace-11 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-11 move-to-workspace-12 = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move-to-workspace-12 move-to-workspace-left = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_workspace_left move-to-workspace-right = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_workspace_right move-to-workspace-up = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_workspace_up move-to-workspace-down = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_workspace_down raise-or-lower = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/raise_or_lower raise = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/raise lower = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/lower maximize-vertically = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/maximize_vertically maximize-horizontally = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/maximize_horizontally move-to-corner-nw = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_corner_nw move-to-corner-ne = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_corner_ne move-to-corner-sw = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_corner_sw move-to-corner-se = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_corner_se move-to-side-n = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_side_n move-to-side-s = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_side_s move-to-side-e = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_side_e move-to-side-w = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_side_w move-to-center = /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_center I attaching the buggy created metacity folder with containing the converted .gconf style keybindings. Showing any errors the files? Possible gsettings-data-convert service doing a mistake with Metacity related keybinding preferences? If I doed an invalid bugreport with Metacity related, very sorry, but I haven't got any ydea what other component producing this bug. Attila -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list ubuntu-accessibil...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: metacity 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic-pae 3.2.9 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Mar 15 11:33:32 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120308) SourcePackage: metacity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/955876/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
