Package: sawfish Version: 1:1.5.3-2.1+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
After the upgrade to Gnome 3, I have tried to start sawfish as the default window manager in several ways, which almost all fail and give the Gnome fullscreen message "something has gone wrong, please logout". I can however kill the default WM when logged into a Gnome session and then start sawfish, this works fine, it shows no errors on the command line. I tried the following things to make sawfish the default WM: 1. add the line: export WINDOW_MANAGER=sawfish to the .profile line, since the /usr/bin/gnome-wm script looks for this environment variable to start the preferred WM. Sawfish is started but the Gnome session stalls and the Gnome error screen appears. 2. I make files /usr/share/xsession/gnome-fallback-sawfish.desktop, /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback-sawfish.session and /usr/bin/gnome-session-fallback-sawfish, the latter one refering to the .session file (see /usr/bin/gnome-session-fallback) changing in the .session file the WM from gnome-wm to sawfish Sawfish is started but the Gnome session stalls and the Gnome error screen appears. 3. I changed the order of known WM's in the /usr/bin/gnome-wm script to sawfish first. Sawfish is started but the Gnome session stalls and the Gnome error screen appears. I would expect that any of the three things above would properly start a Gnome session with sawfish, however, this unfortunately seems in vain. Next to this bug, I would like to know if I do something entirely wrong and there might be another way to start sawfish as a default WM. Yours, Tjeerd Pinkert -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages sawfish depends on: ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.2.1-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.2.0-2 ii libaudiofile1 0.3.3-2 ii libc6 2.13-26 ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6.2 ii libesd0 0.2.41-10+b1 ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-3.1 ii libfreetype6 2.4.8-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.24.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6 ii libgmp10 2:5.0.4+dfsg-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.9-2 ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2 ii libpango1.0-0 1.29.4-2 ii librep9 0.90.2-1.3 ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4 ii libxext6 2:1.3.0-3 ii libxft2 2.2.0-3 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.1-3 ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.2-2 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-2 ii rep 0.90.2-1.3 ii rep-gtk 1:0.90.0-2 ii sawfish-data 1:1.5.3-2.1 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 276-2 sawfish recommends no packages. Versions of packages sawfish suggests: ii gnome-control-center 1:3.2.2-2 ii menu 2.1.46 ii yelp 3.2.1+dfsg-1+b1 -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
