Re: Sawfish on ferora 12 has no window frames

[Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>]

On 29/12/09 06:10, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> 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?

No, it was a fresh install of F12 on a new partition, and a compile on 
that install.