[Kmymoney-devel] Re: OT - Strange Screen Behaviour

[Cristian Oneţ]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:17 PM, allan <aganderson at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> For a while, I'd been experiencing system slow running occurring from
> time to time, and after reading something from a Google search, I tried
> switching window manager from kwin to metacity, and no longer got the
> slow downs.
>
> However, after returning to working on the csv plugin, I noticed some
> odd behaviour.  When processing an investment test file, which had
> several non-standard investment activity types, some of these were
> handled correctly, but with the others, the plugin window shifted from
> central to top-left corner.  I couldn't see anywhere in the plugin where
> I specified screen location, nor anything else to account for this.
>
> It didn't do that originally, so I switched back to kwin, and the plugin
> now works as expected.
>
> Is it valid to use metacity with KDE4?  It seems to be allowed.  Anyone
> seen anything similar?  Need I be concerned, or is there anything I
> should also have done?

If it works than it must be valid :) but you'll have to live with the
small glitches as the ones described by you. It's a matter of choice.
I've never tried to use metacity in KDE.

Regards,
Cristian