Re: OpenOffice & Sawfish...

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:17:46 -0700, Brent Miller
<unraveled@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I've been googling for a solution to my problem, and although I've been
> finding what seems to be a troubled history between the two, I haven't
> been able to find an answer to my problem.
> 
> When I open OpenOffice in Gnome/Sawfish, everything for the most part
> works fine. However, if I click on an icon on the tool bar, say
> "Background Color" in Calc, a pop-up window will open giving me a pallet
> to select a color from. The problem I'm having is when Sawfish is my
> window manager, there's no close button ("X") on the pallet window and
> no way to close it. If I startup Enlightenment as my window manager, it
> works okay and I get the "X". Same if I use XFCE.
> 
> Is there a way to get Sawfish to display the "X" so I can close the
> window and/or is there a way to close the window within OpenOffice?
> 
> I'm running Sid, updated a couple of days ago.
> 

I think it depends on the theme, or better, how it define the
transient windows. I know this isn't a solution, but try with a
different sawfish theme, like microgui...


Andrea

P.S. my preferred one is finalstep...