OK, I think I can shed some light here. Like I suspected, it seems that these people did not get what they expected (a useful session sorta kinda like Gnome) but Sawfish works as designed: you do get a menu on the middle mouse button, but nothing much else.
The proper way to use Sawfish under Gnome is not as a replacement for Gnome, but as a replacement for Metacity, or what have you (Compiz, these days?) and in that function, Sawfish continues to work brilliantly. The fix here I think would be to remove the Sawfish option from the GDM "sessions" menu, since few people really want to replace Gnome with Sawfish, and those who do probably aren't scared of adding it to the menu by hand. I'm guessing /usr/share/xsessions/sawfish.desktop is responsible for offering Sawfish as a session-manager option in gdm? In the meantime, if you do want to use Sawfish as your window manager, configure it under System -> Sessions. This is somewhat tricky, because you basically want to kill metacity from underneath, then start up sawfish somehow while you are running without a window manager, and then save that as your preferrend session. I'm too chicken to attempt to provide foolproof instructions, but if I managed to do it, so can you (-: ** Summary changed: - [Edgy] Sawfish not usable + Sawfish not (really) useful as session manager ** Description changed: This is on current edgy. I did "sudo apt-get install sawfish" and then hit ctrl+alt+backspace. I chose sawfish as my session in gdm, and correctly entered username/password. I hit enter and it just hangs without loading sawfish (unless sawfish is a window manager that doesn't respond to a variety of random keypresses and left/right mouse clicks). I'm not sure what files to attach. I took a look at various logs and I couldn't find any relevant errors. I'll be happy to include any information necessary to solve this. Thanks in advance. + + (See comment #4 for a diagnosis.) -- Sawfish not (really) useful as session manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/57099 You received this bug notification because you are a member of MOTU, which is a bug assignee. -- universe-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
