Re: Error running Sawfish-ui on Ubuntu

[Mario Domenech Goulart <mario goulart gmail com>]

Hi Grant

On Fri, 7 May 2010 19:46:23 +0100 Grant Sewell <dcglug thymox co uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I used to love Sawfish but lost track of it over the years.  I've tried
> installing and running Sawfish on my Ubuntu 10.04 system (x86, upgraded
> 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 -> 9.10 -> 10.04 - this is *not* a fresh 10.04
> system) but I'm hitting a bit of a snag with rep.
>
> I've installed the following from the Ubuntu repo's:
> sawfish			1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1
> sawfish-data		1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1
> sawfish-dbg		1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1
> sawfish-lisp-source	1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1
> sawfish-merlin-ugliness	1.3.1-1
> sawfish-pager		0.6a-3
> sawfish-themes		0.12
> librep9			0.90.2-1
> rep-gtk			1:0.90.0-2
>
> Rather than jumping straight into Sawfish as a full-on window manager
> for my main system, I've been trying to play with it in a Xephyr X
> session.
>
> Running Xephyr is OK.
> Running xterm in the Xephyr session is OK.
> Starting sawfish from said xterm session is OK and indeed the xterm
> gets some nice window decorations.
> Running sawfish-ui from the xterm within the Xephyr session, however,
> presents me with the following error:
>   exec: 8: rep: not found
>
> Fair enough, one "apt-get install rep" later and the above error has
> gone!  Only to be replaced by a much less helpful (to me) error:
>   eval_req: Connection reset by peer
>   **** Remote sawfish error: unknown error
>
> What's going on?  How can I fix this?

I had this problem on Ubuntu 9.10.  Probably your problem is the same as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sawfish/+bug/433358

I've worked around that problem by applying a patch which fixes the
problem and rebuilding the sawfish package.

I've put some instructions at
http://call-with-hopeless-continuation.blogspot.com/2009/11/corrigindo-o-sawfish-no-ubuntu-910.html
(in portuguese, but the sequence of commands should be understandable).

The patch is from
http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Fix_sawfish_server_connection

Best wishes.
Mario
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