Re: Helix & Redhat 7 (The Jones is over)

[Bart Decrem <bart eazel com>]

Thanks Mark, that solved the problem!

Bart

Mark Gordon wrote:

> Bart wrote:
>
> > I upgraded RH6.2 to RH7.0 using the Red Hat Upgrade option.  All was well
> > (including Sawfish).
> >
> > Then I installed Helix GNOME for RH7, running the lynx script and the
> > Install Everything option.
> >
> > Sawfish did not work, as follows: there are no windows around my windows,
> > if you know what I mean.  My windows are borderless.  I switch to
> > Enlightenment and everything works fine.  Back to Sawfish, and my borders
> > are gone again.
>
> A recent sawfish upgrade had some problems.  At least some of this is
> sawfish getting into a (seemingly persistently) confused state when
> sawfish is upgraded while the old version of sawfish is running.  The
> following is probably needlessly violent, but I don't know of any less
> simple ways that will work for everyone:
>
> 1) log out of X.
> 2) log in through a virtual terminal.
> 3) mv ~/.sawfish ~/.sawfish.bak
> 4) log into X again.  You get a new ~/.sawfish that isn't broken.
> 5) You might try copying ~/.sawfish.bak/custom to ~/.sawfish and see
> whether that breaks things.  If it does, let us know (and please send us
> a copy of it to play with), and I'm afraid you'll have to redo your
> settings manually.  I'm not sure it's necessary, though.
>
> --
> -Mark Gordon