Re: New Debian installation

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:37:13 -0500
schrieb Frank McCormick <beacon videotron ca>:

> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:31:02 +0100
> Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de> wrote:
> 
> > Am Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:44:27 -0500
> > schrieb Frank McCormick <beacon videotron ca>:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Just installed Sawfish on my Debian testing - but for some reason
> > > picking it from the GDM menu results only in  a blank screen which
> > > doesn't respond to anything, including middle clicks on the mouse.
> > 
> > can you login again and then switch to the console and post the
> > content of your ~/.xsession-errors?
> 
> 
>    Sure can. Nothing changed. But I did notice when I logout of the
> console and go back to F7...the grey screen has been replaced by a
> black screen in which I can type but not exit or do anything else.
> 
> This is xsession-errors:
> 
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> 
> 
> That's it.
> 

if you start the fallback session and start sawfish from that xterm,
does it work? Besides, which versions of librep/rep-gtk/sawfish are
you using?

I just re-installed Debian (switched from i386 to amd64) and it's
working out-of-the-box here.

Chris