Re: sawfish broken unstable dist

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

>>>> "H" == Heitzso  <xxh1@cdc.gov> writes:

H> I'm pointing apt against both debian unstable packages
H> and helix unstable packages.  So the problem may be there.

H> Behavior is that, if Sawfish is set to be window manager,
H> the session collapses/breaks.  Logging on it blinks and
H> I get a login screen again.  If I set 'Debian' instead of
H> 'Sawfish' I get enlightenment window manager (works fine)
H> but if I then try to reset to sawfish it goes belly up.

Where you set Debian or Sawfish ?

Maybe you need to read the update-alternatives manpage.

H> I don't need to work with sawfish, and I suppose may
H> make the most sense to drop the helix package sites.

H> ==> ONE KEY QUESTION, SHOULD I BE DROPPING HELIX SITE?

H> Could someone advise and/or point me to doc on this?
H> I run RedHat on another system and have been happy with
H> Helix, so setup my Debian to grab Helix.  This worked
H> fine until about a month ago when it snapped.

Don't mix up Helix and Debian.

H> ==> WHAT IS THE RECOMMENDED DEBIAN way to do this?
H> I don't need to fight the river if sawfish isn't
H> supported in Debian unstable.

Sorry ? The latest in debian is 0.35-1 the latest upstream.

Christian