Re: sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-06 Thread kmself
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:52:21PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Not sure of Sawmill's default behavior, but the herringbone is the > > default X Windows background (there's a reason for it, lost in the mists > > of time). > > Not particularly lost. Such a display makes

Re: sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-05 Thread Joey Hess
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Not sure of Sawmill's default behavior, but the herringbone is the > default X Windows background (there's a reason for it, lost in the mists > of time). Not particularly lost. Such a display makes it easy to see moire patterns if your monitor is subtly out of tuns, a

RE: sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-05 Thread Pollywog
I have the same problem with sawmill. Nothing but that herringbone screen. I wanted to leave KDE only because it is getting to be a huge memory hog. I have tried other desktop environments/wm's including Gnome-icewm and now Windowmaker. Enlightenment looks nice, but I had gone back to KDE after

Re: Sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-05 Thread Pollywog
Try this: Install Gnome and then put this in your ~/.xsession #!/bin/sh panel & gmc & exec sawmill I installed Gnome, but you could install some other environment. -- Andrew

Re: sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-03 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:14:37PM -, Pollywog wrote: > I have the same problem with sawmill. Nothing but that herringbone > screen. I wanted to leave KDE only because it is getting to be a > huge memory hog. I have tried other desktop environments/wm's > including Gnome-icewm and now Window

Re: sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-03 Thread kmself
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 03:45:41PM +0100, Simon Jefford wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Lindsay Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 03 July 2000 15:31 > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: sawmill is a herring b

RE: sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-03 Thread Pollywog
I have the same problem with sawmill. Nothing but that herringbone screen. I wanted to leave KDE only because it is getting to be a huge memory hog. I have tried other desktop environments/wm's including Gnome-icewm and now Windowmaker. Enlightenment looks nice, but I had gone back to KDE after

RE: sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-03 Thread Simon Jefford
> -Original Message- > From: Lindsay Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 July 2000 15:31 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: sawmill is a herring bone screen > > > > Hi all, > > I can run windowmaker, enlightenment and icewm qu

sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hi all, I can run windowmaker, enlightenment and icewm quite happily. But when I try sawmill I just get the herring bone screen. The only sign of intelligence is that the middle mouse button produces a set of menus. This is on three different potato boxes, using either current sawmill or the e