Re: Can't install to custom --prefix location

[Lou Hafer <lou cs sfu ca>]

Daniel,

[ sawfish build unable to find librep ]

	It can surely be done --- just finished building all three to use with
Fedora 11 and Gnome, and installed to a nonstandard location.  At a guess, try
setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include /to/some/path/lib,

	A couple of observations about integration with Gnome:

 * As mentioned elsewhere, a sawfish.desktop needs to be placed in one of
   /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications.

 * For a short time, I actually had sawfish-ui show up under Windows in the
   Gnome preferences app, then lost it. If I can figure out what I changed,
   I'll post an answer.

 * If you tell sawfish to start in the window manager phase of Gnome startup
   (X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager in sawfish.desktop) there's a 10
   second timeout. As best I can figure from scanning Gnome documentation,
   this is because sawfish doesn't implement any of the notification methods
   that gnome-session looks for at this point. I'm getting this from the
   GnomeSession and NewGnomeSession entries at
   
   http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement
   
   Window managers are not my forte, perhaps one of you with a bit more
   familiarity with the protocols can figure out what's missing.
   
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531580
   
   is another useful URL.
   
   Don't feel so down about small glitches. I've used sawfish for years, just
   never had anything that deserved a post. There are likely more of us lurkers
   out in the wild.
   
   							Lou