On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Neil Booth: > > I installed sawfish about 3 wks ago, and have installed a couple of > > revisions of gnome panel since then. However, if I bring up panel > > after starting sawfish, dragging a window becomes jerky and slow. I > > don't remember this behaviour in WindowMaker. Somtimes, but not > > always, panel complains about Sawfish not being Gnome compliant. So I > > suspect it is trying to make up for the supposed non-compliance by > > hooking into a lot of events it wouldn't otherwise. Other > > panel-related things are sluggish too, like menu drawing and tracing > > them with the mouse. Without panel, everything is snappy, but Sawfish > > is a bit limited :-( > > > > I know Sawfish is compliant, so what could be wrong? > > > > I'm running the latest debian unstable, XFree 4.1. > > > > Neil. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I had this problem for a while - it seems that the problem was my ~/.xsession > looked something like this: > # ~/.xsession -- config file for startx > > # Launch applications here (followed by &) > # gnome-terminal & > > # Launch your window manager (or desktop environment) > # here (no &). > /usr/bin/sawfish > gnome-session > > when it should have looked like: > # ~/.xsession -- config file for startx > > # Launch applications here (followed by &) > # gnome-terminal & > > # Launch your window manager (or desktop environment) > # here (no &). > #/usr/bin/sawfish > gnome-session > > Gnome no longer (I think) wants you to specify the window manager from the > .xsession file - it will start your first X session with the system default, > aand you can then specify from a variety of installed ones. Since I > changed it, it runs much faster and happier than before. > Good luck,
Steve is oh so close. You can start Gnome in two ways in your .xsession: start the panel start a windowmanager This will work, but will not be session managed. The smarter way is: gnome-session Gnome-session (and do NOT start a window manager manually before or after) Gnome-session will automatically start the window manager noted in the environment variable WINDOW_MANAGER (note the underscore) And this way you will recieve session management. I suspect that the sluggishness of your setup comes from 2 sawfish biting at eachother. - The one you started manually - The one gnome-session starts They probably don't like eachother. Go fish ;o) Best regards Johnny :o)
