Why does Sawfish dislike KDE dockable applications?

[Milan Zamazal <pdm zamazal org>]

I use Sawfish from Debian testing/unstable.  When I start a KDE
application which docks into the system tray, its system tray icon
usually jumps over the screen crazily, either "forever" (until my
patience gets exhausted and I kill the application) or until it succeeds
in allocating an an extra large space in the system tray and parks
there.  It looks like Sawfish is competing with the system tray, wanting
to swallow the system tray icon and put it into a window.

This happens only with Sawfish and KDE applications.  It doesn't happen
with other window manages (e.g. Metacity or kwin) nor with Gnome
applications.

How can I prevent this problem occurring?

Thanks for any advice.

Milan Zamazal

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of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end
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