Debian Squeeze 3.2 kernel update

I've been meaning to upgrade my kernel to the new 3.X but don't want to spend half my day going thru the options...so I installed the squeeze-backports version. Change the image and header file to fit your cpu and version. I added the headers, you don't have to.

1. Update your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the backports

deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main non-free contrib

2. sudo apt-get update

3. sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae
...or linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 if you have that :)

4. say yes if you're sure you want to add the additional packages.

5. don't walk away...you need to press the OK button for something and quit a section on non-free stuff.

6. reboot and hopefully you'll have a new list in grub and then boot'er up! wheeeeeeeeze!

Metacity doesn't start / load when logging in (Debian)

So for some strange reason, (could be b/c I was installing things for conky?), after a reboot (left the suspend|hibernate|reboot|shutdown popup over 60sec so it shutdown automatically >_<;) metacity didn't start and I had to do a manual startup. So if you're in this situation then you've come to the right place. I went thru hoops to find it but here is a link to the bug report and yes I know it's for Ubuntu but it did solve my issue. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/550082

For some reason or another, something put in "Hidden = true" into my ~/.local/share/applications/metacity.desktop and that screwed up metacity's loading.

so instead of deleting the whole file, just delete that one line.
reboot and you should see your window borders again ;)