Re: Problem with sawfish and Evolution

[Jason Rhinelander <jason gossamer-threads com>]

That's odd, I'm using sawfish 1.3 with Evolution 1.4.5 without this
problem.  Perhaps this is something that was fixed between 1.4 and
1.4.5?  I seem to remember there were a few other focusing issues
(though not errors like you described) that have been fixed since.

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:02, Paul Rensing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not signed up for the list, so please email me directly.
> 
> I have a problem running Evolution if I use sawfish as my window manager
> (which I like very much). With evolution 1.4 (based on Gnome 2.x) and
> sawfish 1.3 (from Fedora Core 1 ;-), the whole X screen locks up if I do
> the following:
>  - open a new mail message.
>  - move the cursor to just over the "CC:" field, but leave the keyboard
> focus in the To: field.
>  - start typing an address. 
> After a few characters, evo pops up a choice list. At that point, there
> seems to be a problem with focus. My whole screen will be locked up, but
> the computer keeps running. I can't get sawfish to shift focus to any
> other window. 
> 
> To fix the symptom, I use Cntl-Alt-F1 to get a console screen and kill
> evolution. Everything is OK.
> 
> I don't get the problem with metacity (which I am not fond of). Also, if
> I make sure the mouse cursor is above the To field (so that the
> completion pop-up does not hit it), I don't have a problem.
> 
> Hope someone can reproduce this and help.
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 
> 		Paul Rensing
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