Re: workspace issue with sawfish 1.5.0

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:00:29 +0200
> Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de> 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.
> >
> > ... 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.
> >
> > Chris
>
> Additionally:
>
> does your sawfishrc contain (require 'sawmill-defaults)?
> if so replace it by (require 'sawfish-defaults)
>
> try adding (require 'sawfish.wm.gnome.integration)

I've now tried that and it makes no difference.

I have narrowed down the backward incompatibility between sawfish
and relatively old gnome.  The new rep packages (librep-0.90.0 and
rep-gtk-0.18.6r2) are not a problem.  I have these installed --
though I did not delete the gnome-*.so and libglade.so produced
by rep-gtk-0.18.3 nd previously installed in

/usr/libexec/rep/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gui/gtk-2

(The gtk.so and types.so in that directory are now the ones
installed by rep-0.18.6r2.)

The problem lies with session management.