Helix for RH7: recent trouble (was Re: Can't switch window manager (crash)

[Paul E Johnson <pauljohn ukans edu>]

arif wrote:
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem:
> I'm running RH 7.0 with Helix-gnome on a 400mHz AMD k6, with 192 MB RAM,
> When I try to switch window managers, from Sawfish to Enlightenment, the
> "wm-properties capplet" crashes, 

I had the same problem and reported it to Helix.

the workaround is to open an xterm, and do

# killall sawfish
# nohup enlightement &
to turn off sawfish and run enlightenment (or window maker or ...)

Gnome is able to save the session.

Now here is one for you. Can anybody install Abisuite RPM from Helix
RH7.0 or gnome-print-devel?

# rpm -Uvh abisuite-0.7.11-0_helix_4.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        libgnomeprint6 is needed by abisuite-0.7.11-0_helix_4
        libgnomeprint.so.6 is needed by abisuite-0.7.11-0_helix_4

# rpm -Uvh gnome-print-devel-0.24-0_helix_5.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        libgnomeprint11 = 0.24 is needed by
gnome-print-devel-0.24-0_helix_5
(but, observe:)
# rpm -q gnome-print
gnome-print-0.24-0_helix_5

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