Re: Sawfish on ferora 12 has no window frames

[Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>]

On 29/12/09 05:36, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> 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.

Well, creating a user test-64 on F11 works fine.  I'll try it on F12 
later (it's a reboot on the box I'm typing this on).