Re: sawfish-client evaluation

["Eric Mangold" <teratorn world-net net>]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:52:30 +1000, Rafal Kolanski  
<rafalk cse unsw edu au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've looked everywhere for an answer to this, but since I've found
> nothing, you are my only hope :)
>
> The problem:
> sawfish-client does not give me ANY errors whatsoever, no matter what I
> type in:
>   user> t3w
>   user> gfd
>   user> bfsd
>   user> s
>   user> (imaginary)
> It also does not save anything into .xsession-errors ... in fact, that
> file is always blank (it didn't exist until I created it anyway).

Well that's pretty strange. Check your configuration setting in sawfish-ui  
-> Miscellaneous -> Error Handling. A setting of "standard-error" puts  
things in .xsession-error for me. Alternatively the "screen" setting may  
work for you.

> This is preventing me from writing anything really useful, for example
> experimenting with merlin's message.jl:
>   user> (require 'merlin.message)
>   merlin.message
>   user> (fancy-message "hello" ())
> (doesn't show message, doesn't say anything at all)
>
> My .xsession (runs sawfish as gnome's window manager):
>
> PATH=/usr/local/X11/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
>
> if [ -x `which xscreensaver` ]
>          then  xscreensaver  -no-splash &
> fi
>
> if [ -x `which wmsetbg` ]
>          then exec wmsetbg ~/.backgrounds/death.jpg &
> fi
>
> xset r rate 250 30 b 0
> exec gnome-session
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Raf.
>
> PS. Has anyone visited the sawfish wiki lately? I've been removing spam
> from there every week or so, but new developments in sawfish seem very
> rare in the past years.

Yeah I visit the wiki every so often. Havn't seen any spam.. guess you're  
doing too good of a job ;)

-Eric