Re: sawfish doesn't work

["Ben FrantzDale" <bfrantzdale Thuban AC HMC Edu>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Andrew D Dixon <andrew_dwight_dixon yahoo com>
To: <gnome-list gnome org>; <debian-user lists debian org>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 8:43 AM
Subject: sawfish doesn't work


> Hi Everybody,
> I'm running Debian Potato and I just decided to try out Helix-Gnome.
> Everything was working great untill today when sawfish died on me.  I
> did two things today that may have cause the problem.  I updated and
> upgraded my system:
> 
>     >apt-get update
>     >apt-get upgrade
> 
> which installed a new version of sawfish (If I remember correctly) and
> then I installed gnome-print:
> 
>     >apt-get install gnome-print
> 
> This removed and updated some packages (I forget which ones exactly but
> I know it removed task-helix-gnome) so I removed gnome-print (because I
> sort of like helix-gnome) reinstalled task-helix-gnome:
> 
>     >apt-get remove gnome-print
>     >apt-get install task-helix-gnome
> 
> and restarted my system.  Now sawfish doesn't work!!!
> 
> Anybody got any clues?

If you run sawfish from the command line does it give any errors?

--Ben