On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:00:29 +0200 Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:42:32 -0400 (EDT) > Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I've been a big fan of sawfish for several years. Thanks very > > much to the developers. > > > > Today I tried updating from rep-gtk 0.18 and sawfish 1.3.5.1 to > > rep-gtk 0.18.6r2 and sawfish 1.5.0. Everything built OK but > > when I restarted X sawfish wasn't there and my X error log > > contained a complaint about gnome-panel: > > > > (gnome-panel:PID) Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_workspace_get_number: > > assertion `WNCK_IS_WORKSPACE (space)' failed > > > > I was able to restart sawfish manually, but the desktop was messed > > up, with icons overlapping panels. I tried deleting my old > > ~/.sawfish/custom just in case there was anything incompatible in > > there and started X again. No dice, same problem. > > > > I then tried reverting sawfish to 1.3.5.1. Again the broken > > start-up. Finally I reverted rep-gtk to 0.18 and everything works > > again. But I'd like to retry the update if I can figure out > > what's going wrong. > > > > I should perhaps mention that my gnome version is rather old: the > > panel is gnome-panel-2.2.2.2. That's because I feel that recent > > gnome has been too "dumbed down" -- there are things I can do with > > the old gnome and that can't with recent releases. But my gtk > > installation is current, version 2.16.5. > > > > Boah. I would like to help you, but it's rather hard to get your > setup ... did you also update librep? you should, as sawfish 1.5 > requires a pretty new one, but you did not mention it. > > ... workspace-code did not change for a very long time, I'm pretty > sure it's GNOME causing the issue, as sawfish works well, standalone, > with recent GNOME, KDE3 and KDE4. > > Chris Additionally: does your sawfishrc contain (require 'sawmill-defaults)? if so replace it by (require 'sawfish-defaults) try adding (require 'sawfish.wm.gnome.integration) to clean your configuration you must remove it while sawfish is not running
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