Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sawfish 1.6.1 "Astral". : sawfish restart bugs, short report.

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:58:56 +0100
schrieb Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl>:

> Janek Kozicki said:     (by the date of Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:11:11
> +0100)
> 
> > screenshot before I move a window:
> >  http://geo.hmg.inpg.fr/~janek/scr_2902.png
> > and while I am moving it:
> >  http://geo.hmg.inpg.fr/~janek/scr_2903.png
> > But to some windows this bug did not apply, I am not seeing a
> > pattern right now.
> 
> hm, it seems that it applies to windows on far-right viewports, their
> absolute coordinates with respect to upper corner of viewport 1,1
> exceed 32768 pixels:
> 
> (1600*2+1920)*7 = 35840
> 
> 
> - and merlin ugliness, once again stopped being present. What is
> the current method to enable it. Is it now moved inside 1.6.1 ?
> 
> I am talking about that Alt-Tab feature for switching windows,
> remember? With merlin it displays all windows altogether.

do you mean the sawfish-merlin package comming from Debian? I don't
know if it's in standard load-path (or in debians extended load-path).
But a normal require merlin.blah should do the trick.

> - and my sawfish-pager stopped working too. Did you put sawfish-pager
>   into your debian deb-src repository too? I could try recompiling
>   this one.

It always had been in my repo. And for this release it's somewhat
common to reinstall it.

>   OK, I downloaded 7.2 and another thing - it seems that in order to
>   have the working option "Use X to mark current viewport" I need to
>   comment out line #ifdef FRAMEOVER in the pager.c source at line
> 390. Why?

make -DFRAMEOVER

> - clicking on sawfish's error message sends something to focused
>   window. An xterm with vim inside is scrolled up. Weird. 

Strange, I never had such issues.

Chris