Re: Sawfish and Gnome 2.2

PhaseBurn writes:
|I'm running gentoo linux, and here's how I'm compiling it via emerge
|(here's the args it uses:
|
|./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
|                --prefix=/usr \
|                --infodir=/usr/share/info \
|                --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
|                --with-gnome-prefix=/usr \
|                --enable-gnome-widgets \
|                --enable-capplet \

you probably should remove those last two options

|                --disable-themer \
|                --with-gdk-pixbuf \

it may be worth trying without gdk-pixbuf as well

|                --with-audiofile \
|                --without-esd \
|                --with-readline \
|                --disable-linguas
|)

perhaps you should just run ./configure and use the defaults (that's
what I do)

|
|I then log out of X, and when I log back in, my gnome panel shows up, my
|desktop icons show up, and then my panel dissapears. Also, none of my
|applications have the window manager decorations around them (no border,
|no close/minimize buttons, etc)... As soon as sawfish is killed, my
|panel's back on my screen...

you'll need to provide more information - look for error messages
wherever your setup saves them

|
|If I start Gnome with metacity first, and then kill it, starting Sawfish
|after that, my panel stays, but all windows still have no borders around
|them. I can minimize windows by clicking on their window list entry in
|my panel, but that's about it... I'm still missing all my window
|decorations... I've managed to replicate this problem on every
|workstation I have (some 20 of them) between my home and my office (All
|running gentoo, so this may be a gentoo issue but I don't see how)...

well, since no one else sees this problem, it seems quite likely that
it is a gentoo issue

        John