Re: sawfish doesn't work

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Smith <msmith4@gladstone.uoregon.edu> writes:

Michael> I think the default sweetpill theme for sawfish is missing
Michael> from the sources.  This means that you have no raise-lower
Michael> buttons or even frames on the windows.  Try using sawfish and
Michael> then running the configuration tool.  Change the appearance
Michael> to microgui or anything else, and then close out all your
Michael> current windows.  The new ones should be OK.  I've been
Michael> installing about 5 workstations this week, and that's what I
Michael> had to do with all of them.

The missing theme is in another package, helix-sweetpill or so.  The
helix people made it the default but omitted adding a dependency to
the sawfish package.  So if this is the whole problem, just apt-get
install helix-sweetpill first and it should work.

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