Re: Sawfish and Gnome

[Stefano Sabatini <stefano sabatini-lala poste it>]

On date Saturday 2008-02-02 12:32:59 -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz opened this window:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 06:12:22PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > Hi Sawfishers, 
> > 
> > I'm using sawfish 1.3.1 and gnome 2.18 from Debian Etch.
> > 
> > I tried from the Gnome panel:
> > System-> Preferences -> Windows
> > 
> > and I got a windows telling:
> > |Cannot start the preferences application for your window manager
> > |Window manager "Sawfish" has not registered a configuration tool
> > 
> > IIRC, previous versions of Gnome showed the sawfish-ui program, which
> > is also what me (and the average user) would expect to see.
> > 
> > Do you have any hint about this message (for example, how is possible
> > to register sawfish-ui to be the configuration tool for sawfish)?
> 
> Maybe (just maybe), try changing your 
> 
> /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties/Sawfish.desktop
> 
> and put this instead:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Sawfish
> Name[cs]=Sawfish
> Name[el]=���������� (Sawfish)
> Name[no]=Sawfish
> Name[da]=Sawfish
> Name[sk]=Sawfish
> Name[sl]=Sawfish
> Name[sv]=Sawfish
> Type=Application
> Exec=sawfish
> TryExec=sawfish
> Terminal=false
> 
> [Window Manager]
> ConfigExec=sawfish-ui
> ConfigTryExec=sawfish-ui
> SessionManaged=true

Hi Luis, well I checekd that file and it contains exactly the same
content you posted here.

Maybe it's just a Gnome problem...

Anyway many thanks for your suggestion, regards.
-- 
Stefano Sabatini
Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org)