Re: Sawfish on ferora 12 has no window frames

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:36:03 -0700
schrieb Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>:

> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 07:29:01PM +1100, Allan Duncan wrote:
> > On 28/12/09 03:21, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> > >
> > >Any output in .xsession-errors or stderr, if started from terminal
> > >(`sawfish-config')? Perhaps the themes aren't installed properly.
> > 
> > Wierd.  When you attempt to start Appearance you get the message:
> > *** Remote sawfish error: (error "can't parse tar file listing line
> > (GNU or Solaris tar required): -rw-r--r-- test-32/test-32  60
> > 2009-12-23 03:47 gradient/README\012")
> > 
> > (test-32 is the user name).
> > 
> > Now, I can "tar
> > -txzf /usr/share/sawfish/1.6.0/themes/gradient.tar.gz" successfully,
> 
> A complaint is not about a failed listing but that sawfish cannot
> parse a line from that listing.  The line quoted in your error
> message looks quite innocent but I wonder if '-' signs in
> "test-32/test-32" user designation are not spooking a parser.
> Everything else appears to be "normal enough"; not even "weird"
> characters in file names.
> 
>     Michal

... librep/sawfish switched from $prefix/libexecdir to $prefix/libdir,
perhaps there are old fragments from
$prefix/libexecdir/{librep,sawfish} beeing used?

Chris