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Re: sawfish, x, nedit problems on testing



On Die, 2003-03-18 at 10:41, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote:
> 
> On testing I have recently got some problems that apt-get reinstall
> didn't solve.
> 
> Sawfish regularly disappear, letting windows' content alone; i have to
> switch to twm in gnome control center to get some control back.

Sounds like sawfish crashes.

> Nedit too cannot anymore support more than one open window: it's
> impossible to write in a second open text file.
> Is there a parameter in XFree to correst this ?

I doubt this has anything to do with the X server, might be a sawfish
problem as well. Maybe try a different sawfish version or another window
manager?

> (I'm always on Gnome 1.4).

In GNOME 2, you can set up the window manager to respawn, which would
work around the first problem.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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