On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:44:13 -0400 (EDT) Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:42:32 -0400 (EDT) > > Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I've been a big fan of sawfish for several years. Thanks very > > > much to the developers. > > > > > > Today I tried updating from rep-gtk 0.18 and sawfish 1.3.5.1 to > > > rep-gtk 0.18.6r2 and sawfish 1.5.0. Everything built OK but > > > when I restarted X sawfish wasn't there and my X error log > > > contained a complaint about gnome-panel: > > > > > > (gnome-panel:PID) Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_workspace_get_number: > > > assertion `WNCK_IS_WORKSPACE (space)' failed > > > > > > I was able to restart sawfish manually, but the desktop was messed > > > up, with icons overlapping panels. I tried deleting my old > > > ~/.sawfish/custom just in case there was anything incompatible in > > > there and started X again. No dice, same problem. > > > > > > I then tried reverting sawfish to 1.3.5.1. Again the broken > > > start-up. Finally I reverted rep-gtk to 0.18 and everything works > > > again. But I'd like to retry the update if I can figure out > > > what's going wrong. > > > > > > I should perhaps mention that my gnome version is rather old: the > > > panel is gnome-panel-2.2.2.2. That's because I feel that recent > > > gnome has been too "dumbed down" -- there are things I can do with > > > the old gnome and that can't with recent releases. But my gtk > > > installation is current, version 2.16.5. > > > > > > > Boah. I would like to help you, but it's rather hard to get your > > setup ... did you also update librep? you should, as sawfish 1.5 > > requires a pretty new one, but you did not mention it. > > Yes, I updated to librep-0.90.0. That worked fine. > > > ... workspace-code did not change for a very long time, I'm pretty > > sure it's GNOME causing the issue, as sawfish works well, > > standalone, with recent GNOME, KDE3 and KDE4. > > Well, it's clearly a gnome issue, since gnome-panel provokes the > assertion failure in libwnck. But it also suggests some sort of > backward incompatibility in sawfish and/or rep-gtk, since when > these are "downgraded" things work again. On rep-gtk: to be more > precise, the version that I know works for me is in fact 0.18.3. > > Allin Cottrell ... well the problem is: where haven't major changes to rep-gtk before 0.90.0 (git), except the removal of libgnome* bindings (which was only used in sawfish-ui - therefore can't be related to this) ...
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature