Re: New Debian installation

[Frank McCormick <beacon videotron ca>]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:45:45 +0100
Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de> wrote:

> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 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?
> > 
> > 
> > /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> > 


> 
> if you start the fallback session and start sawfish from that xterm,
> does it work? 

  No..same situation.

>Besides, which versions of librep/rep-gtk/sawfish are
> you using?

  rep-gtk 0.90.0-2
  sawfish 1.3.5.2-1

I know there are newer versions...but I don't want to start
compiling. The one I'm running is the latest from the
testing repositories.


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

  Which flavor of Debian ? I'm running testing i386.


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Frank<beacon videotron ca>